Leave aspirations at the door: crippling bureaucracy, and seniority-based rewards ahead - Software Engineer Boeing Employee Review

2.0
Feb 7, 2015
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Pros

- Easy interview process - Very little accountability - Pockets of amazing, talented people - Lots of holiday pay - Looks good on a resume

Cons

- Crippling bureaucracy means it's nearly impossible to make real impact - Management chain fond of making short-term, cost-cutting decisions that make them look good, but are detrimental in the long term - Lots of lazy and poor-performing employees are tolerated, and even rewarded based on nothing more than seniority

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Cons

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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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