Great company with good benefits but could be frustrating getting career advancement opportunities - Project Management Specialist Boeing Employee Review

4.0
12 Jun 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It's satisfying to see your products (airplanes) all over the sky and at airports. We are on the leading edge of technologies.

Cons

The culture is not progressive enough but it's slowly changing (not fast enough). Advancement/promotion decisions are based on the number of years worked vs how capable an individual is. The company is having a hard time retaining new hires (Gen x and Gen y) and most babyboomers (majority of the current workforce) are at retirement age. Big brain drain ahead and the company is not promoting fast enough. Lastly, there are so many incompetent employees that are holding senior positions which are demoralizing the motivated junior employees (often leave out of frustrations).

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3.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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