Boeing reviews

Everything else. Listen, if you're a new Engineering student about to earn your degree, you can do much, much better than Boeing. This place has turned into an accounting firm. It's always schedule and cost over quality. Always. Don't believe the platitudes about how safety is the highest priority. It's rubbish. The Executives perform that song and dance to the media, but in the trenches, managers will nix any and everything that gets in the way of their precious metrics. It doesn't matter if it enhances safety for either manufacturing operations or the customer, if it adds time to the production flow, off to the bin it goes. Nothing currently in the news is a surprise to those of us on the inside. Absolutely nothing. The 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was a case of management overruling engineering, and the practice is alive and well at the big B, failing MCAS systems and random door plugs flying off and all. So again, to you budding, bright-eyed and hopeful engineering grads out there, might I suggest one of Elon Musk's companies. Or perhaps Airbus. Boeing is kaput.

However good story ends above: 1. "Highly Nontechnical" managers with non-existent people skills ( most of them except may a few good ones ) not adding any value to the company . 2. Middle level managers are ineffective (as being non technical with no domain knowledge ) most of the time busy in dirty politics for every small thing as this is what they can do . 3. Manager's company, very hierarchical , you can not do even small things without manager's approval , this brings lot of arrogance and a feeling of superiority in managers. The negative of this is everyone wants to be manager because the power lies there (at least in Boeing India ) and no one is looking for other roles (e.g. Architects/Product manager/Subject matter expert etc. ) , this also brings culture of sycophancy across the organization . 4.Boeing behavior remains on posters only , typically you are asked to behave opposite . If you show Boeing behavior (interpretation of that is very subjective ) and does not go well with your manager then your career may be over or you will become stagnant /sidelined. 5. Not good for experienced people if they are in other roles apart from managers as managers (coterie of managers) will ensure that if you speak up then you are sidelined ( In most of the cases or you look for other opportunities within other BU if you can't keep your mouth shut ) and eventually you leave the company after getting frustrated. Having said that this only applies for Boeing India IT&DA and I am very sure that people are empowered elsewhere 6. Not good for freshers or people in 2-5 years as well because most of the time you will work on legacy projects/old technologies and if you spend sometime here(2-3 years ) then there will be no takers for you outside Boeing . A significant time is spent building PowerPoint slides which they call entrepreneurship/startup culture :-). 7. A very high culture of sycophancy instead of merit ( most of the times ) which is disheartening , typically anyone who is on the other side of the globe is considered demigod and people who are individual contributor role in India ( However experienced they are ) are taken for granted and not listened. Managers ensure people bend and follow the "Orders" from someone from US. 8. Significant level of attrition in experienced and junior resources(not in managers though ) as they are tired of highly political and ineffective managers who are arrogant and not able to provide any value.(remember most of them are non-technical with no domain knowledge and unfortunately non-existent people skills ). 9. New President/VP conducted some surveys about effectiveness of management and people on the ground thought that this will bring some changes but nothing has changed unfortunately on the ground or not tangible. People are losing faith and attrition will continue. (may slow down a bit due to Covid )