BCA - Not so bad - Senior Project Manager Boeing Employee Review

4.0
Aug 15, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Boeing has been good to me - I hired on 22 years ago as a flight line mechanic, transferred to planning and then to engineering and finally to project and program management. Their learning together program and tuition reimbursement paid for me to finish my BSBA, and is paying for my Masters degree. They also allow me to take webinars to maintain PDU's for my PMP. Their on-hour training earned me a Masters Certificate from Stevens Institute in PM, and an advanced certificate in PM from Stanford. That training also prepared me to sit for, take and pass the PMP exam. Pay growth has been steady at 3-5% annually. Special recognition is available for high performers.

Cons

Some managers are uptight, rigid and pains in the arse. Some would not get a brain fire put out with excess urinary content. Others - I'd follow to hell and back. Poor managers reflect biases in annual raises and stifle pay growth. HR and Ethics office more interested in protecting status quo than righting wrongs. Peter principle is in effect and Boeing is the birthplace for this phenomenon. Senior McD managers have pillaged the company and there is a war between old BA and McD management raging leaving the workers in disarray trying to design, build and deliver the best airplanes in the world.

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5.0
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Pros

Good work life balance for employees and management

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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