Boeing reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(18,250 total reviews)
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75% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Boeing has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 18,250 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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3.0
Sep 9, 2018

Behind the times

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits and work life balance

Cons

Bad management, bureaucracy, lots of dead weight, they don’t promote or pay for performance but for time served, they have a lot of outdated systems and tools and are very behind in the market and other companies in this regard, slow, pay is not competitive, very hard to feel like you make an impact as an individual.

3.0
Aug 28, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Boeing has taken really good care of me since joining out of college over the years, but really needs to step up it's game to remain competitive (in software). Company leadership have become awakened to the powers of agile, user centered design and devops, but the other verticals of the company (facilities, hr) are not prepared or are reluctant to do what they need to retain the top talent. I was taken care of and was kept relatively happy as a software engineer for five years, but after wanting more out of my career pursued a position of high stress, high visibility and potentially high payoff. Only the stress and visibility pieces materialized.

Cons

Corporate bureaucracy runs amok. The majority of employees at Boeing are happy with corporate tranquility and that can be an pain for high performers. Ex Co has a desire to be adaptive and modern but a century of middle management bloat stops that desire from becoming something.

1.0
Aug 20, 2018

Interns

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits program for interns.

Cons

They allow their managers to lie to their interns. They can tell you that they will let you come back to the company without any complaints. Then they are allowed to change their minds and bring up things that were never addressed to you when asked by HR. The only way you get promoted is if you spend practically your whole life at the company. Company culture is very old and not attractive to younger people. They have managers that don't encourage you to explore other areas of the company and deny you the opportunity when you ask about it. They have poor placement and development programs. They put people in departments that aren't even relevant to their degree of study, and you don't learn anything new. A lot of the people that have stayed in the company longer are complacent and play games on Facebook during work hours. There's a reason why they're called the "Lazy B" in the aerospace industry. They are not considerate to tell people that most interns are located in Everett or Renton. Their end of the summer report out event was not helpful at all. Almost all of the full-time managers and VPs that come don't even seem interested to talk to you. Their interactions aren't genuine.

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