Excellent benefits, poor career advancement for developers - Software Engineer II Boeing Employee Review

3.0
4 Dec 2015
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Pros

Excellent benefits if you have a family. Boeing has offices in many places and it's pretty easy to change jobs.

Cons

Boeing is a hardware company that also writes software. That means most management is trained for and think in terms of hardware, so they do little to keep up with current software trends or best practices. There is no real career track for software development. It is very hard to get past level III without taking a management position. Consequently, there are also very few experienced developers to work with and learn from. Additionally, since they are a defence contractor funding is tied to contracts and you have to track hours and charge to the correct number. Some software products that are used by multiple contracts are given very little overhead and this causes developers to have to charge to several different numbers on a daily basis.

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Pros

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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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