Boeing's sad decline - Systems Engineer Boeing Employee Review

5.0
Jan 31, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits good (but used to be unbelievable: Free 100% PPO, Free MS and BS degrees + 100 shares of Boeing stock when you graduate as a reward.

Cons

Back in the early 2000s, Huntington Beach was so crowded you couldn't find a parking space. Now, even with the absorption of the closed Anaheim facility, there are weeds growing in the parking lot. Guys with 30 years at P5 are forced to take 10% pay cuts and demotions to P3 or P4 - if they're luck to keep their jobs. A lot of work is moving to Huntsville, AL.No more Boeing Canoga Park, Irvine, or Anaheim. Seal Beach and Long Beach are on life support.Otherwise, Boeing is similar to any other huge company with its culture, processes, lack of harmony between different internal organizations, Boeing in SoCal is sinking like a Lead Zeppelin.

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Pros

Benefits are great, base pay could be better.

Cons

Currently the major location with jobs are not attractive, pay should reflect the undesirable location.

4.0
Jun 28, 2026
Recommend
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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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