Real Time Software Engineer III - Real Time Software Engineer III Boeing Employee Review

4.0
May 27, 2015
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Pros

Was able to be apart of some very high profile projects that make a huge difference. As part of the job you also have the opportunity to work on projects that the general public may never know exists and get to travel to places and facilities that few people get to experience. On top of that, Boeing's Healthcare package is the absolute best I have experienced over my career.

Cons

It can be summed up as: "Boeing can put a man on the moon, but they can't put an app in the app store." It is geared for Waterfall/Spiral development (Yeah, there was a push for a move to agile, however its really just planning out the development of the preplanned rigid requirements into sprints, not actually practicing true SCRUM/Agile methodologies). They are very process based and while that works great for manufacturing and some of the physical engineering, it doesn't work well for software development. Each project is different, and the one size fits all processes can make it difficult to be as effective as you could be.

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Work-life balance has been great at the Long Beach site. My coworkers are very considerate and supportive. Benefits suck as parental leave and 401k, Roth 401k, and mega backdoor Roth make it so you can really get ahead in terms of retirement building. They are trying to get better in culture and performance rather than some companies that don’t even pretend to care. During the pandemic there was no training. Now there’s some!

Cons

Base pay can be slightly lower than other companies for specific skills. Each site and each organization within each site has its own culture depending on who is the VP/executive team. There are so many executives it’s hard to get things done. Things move very slowly.

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