Big Bureaucracy to get lost in - RF Engineer Boeing Employee Review

1.0
May 19, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Steady job-you can stay here for 25 years doing the same exact thing over and over again Good benefits

Cons

The company has so much bureaucracy that it is very hard to learn a lot. There are two jokes about Boeing: If you know how to build the right wing, you don't know how to build the left. Because you role is so confined to one specific duty. The other joke is if you get fired from Boeing, you dont have a job. They build their own test equipment and write their own software's which it makes it much harder to align your experience with another company. This is one company where everyone who I've met after I left said was the worst company to work for. You spend so much time on bureaucracy that there's no time to learn anything technical. A lot of people like that because they don't want to deal with the technical side. The recent news with Boeing is not that surprising given the level of talent and all of the inefficiencient bureaucracy at the company.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
May 27, 2026
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Pros

Easy going, nice benefits, free further education (masters/PhD). Great for an engineer starting out who needs to dip their feet in the pool of engineering for a few years and to get a great 401(k) match at the start of your career (compounding growth). Great for late stage career due to the benefits and solid enough pay in a low cost of living area

Cons

pay-scale lagging, no emphasis on learning new things, no punishment for people who are bad at their job. After working for 4 years, I feel like I should have jumped ship after 2. I haven't been given meaningful work that really challenges me in a while. Now I feel pigeonholed into staying because I have enough years of experience that I really should be considered senior, but I haven't been given work that reflects what I senior engineer should be capable of. Now I'm trying to jump ship before it's really too late. If I stay here another 2 years I think I will be genuinely unemployable and will have to stay at this company forever.

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