Boeing reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(18,224 total reviews)
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Kelly Ortberg

75% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Boeing has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 18,224 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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4.0
Oct 4, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great Benefits. They automatically put 3% of your salary into a 401k and you are fully vested right away. They then match the first 4% that you put in, and then they match 50% of your inputs up to 8%. So, if you put away 8% of your salary into your 401k, Boeing will put 9% of your salary into your 401k. Flexible work hours. This depends on your manager and your function, but there is the option to flex time. So, days when you have other things to do, you can work less and make it up later in the week. Education payment. After working with the company for a year, you can begin to take classes towards a college degree.

Cons

The work is not very challenging. If you are looking to work on the guts of cutting edge technology, Boeing is not the place for you. You may get to play with cool toys, but it is unlikely that you will develop it. Most work involves integrating systems into a manufacturing environment and defining functional requirements. There is way too much bureaucracy. It is extremely challenging to get anything done. Everyone needs to have a say and there is oftentimes a notion that something is not their statement of work, even though occasionally it is no one's defined statement of because of its novelty. So, there are instances where groups won't help you and also won't let you do it yourself. Too vertical of a company. There are way too many layers of management. There are so many managers that just manage managers.

4.0
Jul 1, 2016

Entry Level Engineer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good healthcare and 401K benefits. There is an opportunity for a flexible work schedule depending on manager. Competitive entry level pay.

Cons

Just a cog in the machine of a giant corporation. Companies like this historically took care of employees to ensure retention - this is going away however (pensions, etc.). There is little incentive to stay with the company for long. Raises are difficult to come by, and your compensation/bonus is completely unrelated to your performance. There is not incentive to do anything more than mediocre work.

1.0
Aug 2, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get to show up to work and do nothing.

Cons

Soul sucking place. Management doesn't care about you. Very underpaid. Lifeless work, you don't have to use your brain. All of your coworkers are extremely unqualified and not very smart. Extremely racist hiring practices. They value "diversity", over technical ability, so they hire based on skin color and foreign origins above all other factors. They do not ask technical questions. 100% behavior STAR questions, so they are asking questions like "tell us about a time you had a problem at work" for 6 figure positions. Like I said above, they don't value technical abilities or degrees, so you often see mechanical and electrical engineers hired to perform as software engineers. Mechanical/electrical engineering is embedded in the culture (obviously), so they still prefer these degrees for ALL roles in the company (lol). Promotion is not based on merit, but blindly applying to as many levels above you as you can. The hiring manager for the position you are applying for has 0 insight of your past job performance, and will give you an "equal opportunity" to get promoted as everyone else on the planet (or they may just hire their favorite). Nepotism is rampant. Did I mention racism? Just don't work here. No one is punished for not doing any work, or poor behavior. You can file as many HR complaints as you want against coworkers (sexual harassment, yelling, tantrums etc), and after HR ensures they are protecting the company from lawsuit and they are safe, they will not follow up/reprimand the employee. You will not gain any new skills here. All software is installed in these huge bubbles of firewalls and system restrictions to keep their dumb employees from downloading viruses and trojans. The hiring practices really are the root of all of these problems. Any smart/talent that leaks into this company is quickly evicted by the toxins and general aura of incompetence. Oh, and they have 6 layers of "managers", including level 1 managers that they hire straight out of school. These people don't actually do anything except impede the actual workers and harass them with status requests. I'm sorry, but no 21 year old straight out of school is qualified to be a manager.

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