Decent place to "turn the crank" on non-technical engineering - Mrb Liaison Engineer Boeing Employee Review

2.0
Dec 22, 2009
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Pros

Boeing has some of the best benefits in the industry. They pay above average, have no cost medical and dental insurance, and even have some decent employee benefits like low-cost health clubs and discount movie tickets. If you do even a marginal job you are considered better than most of your peers.

Cons

The unfortunate part about engineering at Boeing is that they are moving away from having any core engineering competencies. The design engineers don't design, they look over partner designs (and sometimes fix them). The analysts review stress notes from partners. The production engineers like me don't do any real engineering, we oversize bolts and tell shop to sand out scratches. I haven't found any part of my job to be rigorous or challengining, and find that the longer I work there the more I feel like I'm losing my technical edge. It is such a large "machine" of a company that it is often hard to find a place that you can really excel, especially because nobody has much responsibility (everyone has just a tiny little bite). Also, because Boeing has been warring with its unions for years (and engineers are union in Puget Sound), they are currently warring with SPEEA and retroactively cutting/billing us for the education benefits they already paid out.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Easy going, nice benefits, free further education (masters/PhD). Great for an engineer starting out who needs to dip their feet in the pool of engineering for a few years and to get a great 401(k) match at the start of your career (compounding growth). Great for late stage career due to the benefits and solid enough pay in a low cost of living area

Cons

pay-scale lagging, no emphasis on learning new things, no punishment for people who are bad at their job. After working for 4 years, I feel like I should have jumped ship after 2. I haven't been given meaningful work that really challenges me in a while. Now I feel pigeonholed into staying because I have enough years of experience that I really should be considered senior, but I haven't been given work that reflects what I senior engineer should be capable of. Now I'm trying to jump ship before it's really too late. If I stay here another 2 years I think I will be genuinely unemployable and will have to stay at this company forever.

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