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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4.0
Sep 7, 2015

Great Company to work for

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Pros

Boeing is a great company to work for, they offer competitive pay, great benefits, training, tuition assistance, travel in some positions and advancement opportunities world wide. Like most major corporation most positions require a degree, unless you have experience with aircraft from the military service or other aerospace company.

Cons

If you don't like moving about every 3-5 years advancement and pay increases are very difficult. Merit pay system is a joke is non existent, they peanut butter the raises across the board expect 3% on average every year. Management changes frequently so you have to prove yourself repeatedly. Due to business cycles layoffs are common. The corporate culture is different at every work site, lots of meetings many are unproductive. Some people slack at their jobs while the rest of the team is productive.

3.0
Aug 19, 2015
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Pros

Good benefits for families. Some remote work was allowed. Immediate managers were good to work with but frequently had their hands tied from above.

Cons

Consistently release experienced developers in favor of entry level because they are cheaper. No incentive to perform well or gain experience. Meanwhile executive salaries keep rising.

4.0
May 27, 2015
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Pros

Was able to be apart of some very high profile projects that make a huge difference. As part of the job you also have the opportunity to work on projects that the general public may never know exists and get to travel to places and facilities that few people get to experience. On top of that, Boeing's Healthcare package is the absolute best I have experienced over my career.

Cons

It can be summed up as: "Boeing can put a man on the moon, but they can't put an app in the app store." It is geared for Waterfall/Spiral development (Yeah, there was a push for a move to agile, however its really just planning out the development of the preplanned rigid requirements into sprints, not actually practicing true SCRUM/Agile methodologies). They are very process based and while that works great for manufacturing and some of the physical engineering, it doesn't work well for software development. Each project is different, and the one size fits all processes can make it difficult to be as effective as you could be.

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