Boeing reviews

Never has Boeing as a company ever done anything for me that I would consider fun. You show up to work, sit at your desk and pray that you actually get to have some reprieve from reading endless PowerPoints, or attending meetings that could have been summarized in an email. Everything comes down to what will immediately make Boeing money. Turning a conference room into a break room only looks like an additional expense to the managers and doesn't have any short-term benefits. There's a ton of little initiatives to try and fix things like being more active, but they're very low effort without any follow-through from management.

Deeply depressing office environments – suburban or rural locations in run-down buildings with 1980s cubicle layouts. Think Office Space but with crappier coffee. Mind-numbing bureaucratic culture – enormous amounts of red tape that inhibit any one person from making decisions quickly. Sometimes it feels like nothing is happening around here. Legacy business systems that are 4-5 generations obsolete. Hours and hours of pointless meetings per month. Engineering and business leadership seem to think that decisions can only be made in meetings. Tons of deadweight, near-retirement employees who simply don’t care what you need from them. Boeing basically makes it impossible to lay these people off. Salary ceiling that lags behind other Seattle area companies; leadership has stated they simply will "not compete with Amazon, Microsoft and others" on salary leading to lots of turnover for younger employees. Many believe the company will slowly move work to friendlier ‘right to work’ states in the next 25 years. Senior executives are literally treated like royalty; private security, private drivers, fleets of private jets at their disposal. Sort of a bad look when they are always pushing for lower cost operations.