Boeing reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(18,228 total reviews)
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75% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Boeing has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 18,228 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Boeing employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aeroespacial y defensa industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
Dec 20, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The only reason an intelligent engineer would work at Boeing is to work on their own projects. Since at Boeing it doesn't matter if you work or not, show up or not, care or not, or whether or not you are at all intelligent, there is no incentive whatsoever to do a good job. Hence, you can do whatever you want all day. The pros then are 100% life balance, and if you have a lot of outside interests this may be a good place for you.

Cons

If you want to do ANYTHING with your life, you won't do it at Boeing. Boeing is an archaic dump of a company that hopefully will get put out of its misery before the US taxpayers bail it out. Boeing is a big government company; you will only be promoted based on how long you have been there, not based on how smart you are or if you try or not. Everyone at Boeing sits around and chats all day; no one accomplishes anything. After a couple years at Boeing, you'll find yourself just riding out your career (even if you are in your 20s). Most people stay there 35 years and do 0 work. The union also makes it so no one can get fired, no matter how incompetent, and the hard working will never succeed.

1.0
Dec 9, 2010

Worst place I've ever worked in my life

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Very good medical coverage - Lots of employee discounts for cellphone and etc. - Long Christmas vacation. - Volunteering is encouraged.

Cons

There's a lot of negatives to say about this place... - People are very rude, the common attitude is "I'm more important than you" or "I've worked here longer than you". If you have a big ego, this is the perfect place for you. - There's no such thing as merit, it's all about how long you've worked at Boeing - People are very incompetent, it makes you wonder how they managed to not get weeded out - Very conservative and political atmosphere - Salaried employees STILL have to clock in and be detailed about what they do every hour - There's no such thing as work-life balance. - There's no such thing as quality work, as everything revolves around budget/money and deadlines - Groups are very silo'ed off, it's very hard to communicate and work together with someone outside of your group - Too many road blocks to productivity, a lot of time is wasted due to overhead, like numerous meetings that always go over time, people purposely delay to make themselves feel important. - Nothing is well documented, people are very afraid of getting laid off that they keep the knowledge in the only place that's safe, with them only.

2.0
May 8, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. US leadership is good and many time they are mislead buy the managers for Boeing India. but I think they too know some background how they work. 2. Most of the US leads are really supportive and encouraging.

Cons

1. BIE group has really biased leadership, in which they always encourage the people that they are close to them, and there no appreciation for the talented employees. 2. Managers grow much faster than the low level engineers, (5 years experience engineer might get promoted after 4 to 5 years from Level 1 to Level 4, but in the same time Manager will shift minimum 1 to 2 levels,) this says there is no value for the Technical side in Boeing. 3. Employee referral portals wont work in Boeing, they are just name sake. (internally they decide and take them, all fixed recruitment) 4. HR & first level manager always says your salaries are much better compared to market, but its not true in any ways, I don't know which market they are refereeing to? for the same position Airbus offers 40 to 50 % more. 5. They don't care about your salary until you putdown your papers, after that they will come to you and say, we can match to your expectations, you are really important to us...bla bla... 6. No value for long term staying employee, If a person joins Boeing 10 years ago, for the same skills and experience, new hire will get at-least 40 to 60% more,. just think about of the value to old employees.

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