Boeing reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(18,222 total reviews)
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75% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Boeing has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 18,222 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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18K reviews
4.0
May 23, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Health and dental benefits are excellent. It's very cool to work on large airplanes. Salary is good. The job is pretty stable and they are extremely flexible with schedules. I currently work 9 hour days with every other Friday off and can leave anytime if I have an emergency at home. It is also possible to "flex" your schedule and rearrainge your hours in the week tto still work the 40 hours, but get off early to go golfing or whatever you want. If I need I have the opportunity to work OT and get paid for it. Boeing doesn't seem to have high expectations so it's easy to stand out from the crowd. Leadership is typically willing to give the less experienced employees opportunities for growth. There are lots of different jobs all over the company that you can transfer to. Boeing will pay for any and all education regardless of relevance to work assignment.

Cons

Boeing is terrible at integrating new employees. Most new employees come in on their first day and get lost for hours on campus until they finally find their group and then no one knows they were coming. Initial involvement in work is extremely slow and often people have to ask for more work several times before they get busy. Often assignments are very small and don't give a veiw of the overall project. After not very long employee skills can get pigeonholed which makes it difficult to change jobs. Boeing's work enivironment is old and stuffy and any new workplaces are focused on functionality, not employee comfort. There is no clear direction for training and opportunties for promotion take many years to accomplish. Standard process make it hard for exceptional employees to get more signifigant reward than underperforming employees.

5.0
Sep 4, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Good work life balance. 2. Good work. 3. Good compensation. 4. Has a great retention rate. 5. Feel proud to work for this company.

Cons

1. Management is very slow. 2. Too many constraints for developers as you cannot simply download any software or even a jar. You have to get the approvals to download even a single jar. (This is in place due to all the security threats even a small virus may pose, so you can't really blame the company.)

1.0
Feb 9, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Boeing International Brand 2. Work-life balance 3. Free Gym membership (upto 50k per year)

Cons

1. Too bad for real Programmers - you will forget your programming skills as you are always involved in Excel/Word/PPT creation. 2. Managers have no idea how Software Teams work. Some managers doesn't even have PMP certification. 3. Not allowed to work in your experienced skill (Doesn't matter if you are Java/.NET expert, you are asked to work in whatever rubbish task is available) 4. Too many low quality programmers hired to achieve hiring targets 5. Management only talks about Boeing Behaviors, but follows nothing practically. 6. Year-End Performance reviews are a joke as managers have no idea how to evaluate your performance. You are rated based on how you treat your managers (irrespective of your technical skills) 7. Have no hopes of career growth. Please join Boeing India only if your career aspiration is to impress managers by helping with their day-to-day task, and creating spreadsheets/ppts, and if you want to grow in IT career without writing a single line of code.

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