Amazing work life balance, mediocre salary - Software Applications Developer Boeing Employee Review

4.0
16 Jul 2021
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Pros

Huge company with tons of opportunity to move around to things you are interested in. I have had only good experiences with managers that were supportive of their employees. Excellent retirement benefits, pretty good medical and dental. Usually managers are really flexible with schedule and work life balance is prioritized

Cons

As a software developer, you are making about 30-40% less than what your peers are making at Microsoft, Amazon, etc. Those come with trade offs (you get a very solid 40 hr work week, a more laid back work environment, family-oriented co-workers at Boeing), but if you are here to hustle, Boeing is not the company for you. Much of the work for software developers involves updating legacy code or systems, which can be tedious. Boeing IT is still going through its digital transformation so DevOps processes are messy, inconsistent from team to team, and there are no standard software practices.

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5.0
5 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great place to work, good location

Cons

Long hours, can be stuck there

3.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
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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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