The Nature of the business makes it hard to be creative but not impossible - Lead Engineer Boeing Employee Review

4.0
Mar 2, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Products serve a useful function Great facilities and support personnel Supportive co-workers and low level management Good medical & retirement benefits Competitive salary structure Good opportunities for advancement . . . if you play by the party rules

Cons

The nature of the products (super reliable commercial airplanes) tends to discourage creativity and bog one down in rules, many of which can be outdated. The retention grading system can be threatening, and can discourage new ideas Upper management has in recent years seriously weakened the financial strength of the company re its development strategies of new models, which in turn has weakened job security

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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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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