Boeing reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(18,266 total reviews)
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76% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Boeing has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 18,266 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 24, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Great compensation, great benefits, good people with competent leadership. For a software engineer, Boeing is a good place to grow as a leader managing complexity, but technical growth is limited to very specific facets of the defense industry. The work is somewhat interesting/enjoyable, and there are opportunities to present advances to the company and industry. Social ambition (offering to manage projects, presenting, running meetings, etc) is rewarded greatly, and technical ambition is rewarded only with breakthroughs, patents, etc.

Cons

In St. Louis, the location is pretty awful - in a bad area of town and older, dreary office buildings. My biggest complaint is that the company is so large and there are so many technical problems being solved, that there is a ton of redundancy. You might be working on a solution for a year, only to find that another team has implemented something very similar. Joining the solutions may be technically or politically difficult, so then each team attempts to justify its pursuit of the solution. Technical competence is rewarded differently by different teams, and to truly stand out, I recommend joining an advanced technology organization like Phantom Works - this gives you the opportunity to work on more interesting DARPA projects and to pursue patents. While leadership is generally competent, the overall management system at Boeing is overly complex and it can be very frustrating.

4.0
Oct 22, 2010

Great Benefits/Salary

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

good benefits and stable job with average salary

Cons

complicated people and probably this is the only issue

3.0
Oct 20, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Challenging work; co-workers are helpful; Good benefits

Cons

Good old boys network; Management looking out for themselves: Lack of unified processes.

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