Boeing reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(18,241 total reviews)
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75% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Boeing has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 18,241 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Boeing employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aérospatiale et défense industry (3.6 stars).

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2.0
Jan 27, 2016

We Gotta Get out of This Place

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Pros

Easy to get the job, easy to keep the job, ridiculously easy to stand out as competent (I can finish tasks in less than an hour while it takes more senior employees whole days.) If you show the tiniest bit of ambition you will blow everyone away since the corporate culture doesn't necessarily incentivize hard work and productivity and there are ton of senior employees that spend their days playing solitaire and checking their retirement portfolio. Needless to say they've checked out already - don't blame them as the work is boring and stupid as heck. Easiest interview I ever had, no questions relevant to the actual job but they were all from a standardized test bank about diversity and teaming.

Cons

Biggest con is the guaranteed low pay (their formula is halfway between low and market), especially for engineers and skilled people that could make WAY more at performance-based companies. They are constantly trying to chip further at this low salary and strip benefits. My friend on Obamacare gets better insurance for free than I did paying for a premium Boeing medical plan, must be all those aging boomers jacking up the price for small minority of genx and millenial workers. I was told outdated information by the HR recruiters (if they tell you it's possible to get free higher education it's no longer the case), felt like a bait and switch. The company suffers from a constant promotion and wage freeze and minimal (almost insulting) "EIP bonus". Team members that have adapted to laziness because their first level manager has zero expectations for them, I had mates who took 2-3 hours to respond IMs and emails while they were WFH. Buildings are old, drab, depressing and kitchens bathrooms etc can get downright filthy. In the Bellevue campus you can reportedly get cancer from drinking the water (it used to be built on a dump or airport or something) so take care of yourself. If you absolutely need to put food on the table, consider this place but for goodness sake don't stay here too long or the culture will infect you to the point you are unhirable anywhere else.

1.0
Oct 23, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

You have to do very little to meet expectations The benefits are great Flex time and work from home 2 days a week is nice

Cons

No point in being a top performer here, there's no bonus incentives, salary incentives give you maybe a 1% bump for being a top performer Groups are almost all stingy about giving out even the smallest reward for going above and beyond. A typical big reward is 100 bucks worth of "pride points" which you can get something like a best buy gift card with I have worked with many groups in my job and this problem is consistent with 20+ groups I have talked to Salaries are almost always well below the median level like 80% of industry median for the 4 years I have been here and that's with getting 3 promotions Only 1 out of every 10 people is technical in IT so you will waste time reporting all your work to you 3 pms, 2 managers, 3 functional analysts, and a customer They don't care how much you work to improve yourself outside of work, this company is entirely about years of experience

3.0
Jun 26, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

1) Flexible working hours and virtual work option. For the same money, you will end up doing a lot less work. Some employees have more than 3 days each week virtual, some are 100% virtual. There is no way you can track if they are working at home or doing other non-work related activities. 2) You get paid overtime. So if you are really productive, slow down, and make some extra money on overtime. 3) Get paid for any education. People get their masters with Boeing for free to climb up the ladder. So if you already have your master’s degree, don’t consider Boeing. You lose your advantage because you will find a lot people have that from whatever online universities or evening programs.

Cons

You need a high tolerance level of things that do not make any sense. You need to have an attitude of "who cares" and really shift your focus on other things in your life, not work. Another disadvantage is that it is very hard to move to other companies after several years working with Boeing. You will be sucked into the culture and gradually loose your competitive advantages. Everybody at Boeing has the attitude of “get by and just work for the paycheck”, from employee to all levels of managers. The best deal is to become a manager and then you don’t need to do anything and just attend meetings and talk non-sense and follow orders. I don’t think those guys can survive in any other good companies.

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