Boeing an okay place to work - Project Manager Boeing Employee Review

3.0
17 Jun 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The benefit package is wonderful. It's one of the last companies to still have a pension plan AND a 401K. Depending on your department, they are flexible with work and family balancing. Communication in such a large company is a challenge. Departments don't seem to talk to each other even when they need to. Some areas of Boeing rely on ovetime to get jobs done. In that regard it is difficult to plan weekends ahead of time if you are in one of those areas. Boeing is terrific at paying for your college education, but they won't help you put it to use once you get that degree. I've never understood why.

Cons

The lack of accountability in management. Bad managers are allowed to continue to be managers. Why? Our organziation has been reorganized 4 or 5 times in the last four years. Each time we get a new manager and new expectations. A lot of the reorganizations are a result of some Gartner study that says all IT organizations should align this way. Just as we get the latest reorganization under our belts, we get reorganized because it's not working as management had planned. I understand the need for change to be leaner and more productive. However some of the latest reorganizations make no sense and are not any leaner than we were before.

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5.0
5 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great internship and experience opportunities.

Cons

Lots of employees stuck at certain levels with unclear path for moving up.

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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