Real Time Software Engineer III - Real Time Software Engineer III Boeing Employee Review

4.0
May 27, 2015
Recommend
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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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5.0
May 16, 2026
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Pros

Amazing team and management. There is a wealth of knowledge from multi-year veterans to tech-fellows and engineers who have been at this location since it was Douglas Jets.

Cons

Non-production facility. You don't get to see the planes come off the production-line like you would in the Seattle-area locations.

3.0
May 27, 2026
Recommend
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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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