Boeing reviews

Boeing is dominated by an engineering culture, engineering generally dominates decision making. Where engineering is not actual making decisions, senior leadership has a background in engineering. This inst all bad, but it leads to an unbalanced culture. Boeing is very much stuck in a seniority system. Most personnel decision making (pay, assignments, promotions, etc.) is dominated by years of service requirements. This creates a company where people either learn to "do their time" and lose their passion or they leave the company. Many talented young people are coming to the company, getting frustrated with this culture and leaving. Facilities/offices are generally pretty crappy and drab, and parking is a nightmare at the major sites. There seems to be an expectation in the Puget Sound that regardless of where you live you will eventually have to commute to a different site, regardless of how much this may impact your life or family. Despite this, senior management seems to be completely uninterested in investing in any kindof inter-site transportation, or even building enough parking spots for employees to reasonably get to work. I have honestly spent over an hour, multiple times trying to find a place to park when coming to Renton site or Everett site mid-day for a meeting. Its an incredible waste of time and frustrating. Blatant poor performance is tolerated, having fired a low performer I can understand why; It took over a year of hoops and challenges to complete, despite a known and obvious issue.

If you're not in engineering, the salaries and promotional opportunities are in the toilet. Boeing is light years behind the market salaries in this area (Seattle) for a majority of job specialties. The benefits are dwindling away year after year. Many of the important benefits that first attracted me to the company are gone i.e educational reimbursement, no cost health insurance and 401k. Annual salary increases are based on Mickey Mouse math and well below cost of living for this area. Promotional opportunities are almost non-existent. The experienced employees are retiring and the mid-level and entry-level employees are abandoning ship for huge salary increases and hiring bonuses at other big Seattle companies.