Pros
- Good benefits - Work/life balance
Cons
- The vast majority of management is incompetent. I had 4 managers during my time at Boeing, and none were able to translate business objectives into measurable, obtainable goals for employees. This leads to chaos and confusion. This is made worse by the fact Boeing is so large, nobody knows what is going on elsewhere in the company. Entire functions and departments are replicated leading to massive amounts of waste. Management does not appear to communicate. - The culture is one of defeatism, inaction, politicism, and avoidance of work. A huge company may move slower than a smaller one, but can still move a lot faster if employees are brought on board and engaged with the change. The "ship" will turn a lot faster if all hands are working to move it together. - Internal communication at Boeing is horrendous. Expect correspondence with management to be ignored and forgotten for weeks or even months. Boeing lacks all sense of urgency. - Management tends to cycle through roles they don't understand for "development" purposes, ruining any gains that might be gained by having managers experienced in the tasks they manage. - Excessive focus on management to metrics rather than doing what is best for the company. Management will refuse to do work needing to be done simply because doing it will harm their bonus. - The company is operating in the past and has failed to invest in a modern capital infrastructure. There is no ERP system, and Boeing is the only defense firm out of the top 25 which doesn't have one yet. Management of the company is done by spreadsheet and PowerPoint. - If you don't engage in politics and are not a woman, advancing to management is unlikely. - Human Resources policies are backwards and outdated. Time in position is heavily focused on for promotions. High performance is not compensated. Conformity to HR policy results in the poorest performers becoming managers, and the highest performers leaving the company for better prospects. - Supplier Management, particularly the management of Supplier Management, is known to be extremely poor across the entire company. Adding as much non-value added activity to your process can only result in one thing: poor performance.