Not bad, not great - Software Engineer Boeing Employee Review

3.0
Jan 6, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

It's stable for the most part. Benefits aren't bad. Good place to begin a career but not a great place to stay unless you value stability over innovation.

Cons

Ponderous, bureaucratic, left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Paralyzed by indecision in many groups. Often had to hold initial meetings to decide how many meetings will be needed to make a decision, rather than just making the decision then and there. While pay and benefits aren't stellar they are decent and reasonably stable. Some employees end up sticking around for the benefits than for any reasons related to pride in job or faith in senior management, which can lead to apathy amongst the lifers.

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Pros

Benefits are great, base pay could be better.

Cons

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4.0
Jun 28, 2026
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Pros

Work-life balance has been great at the Long Beach site. My coworkers are very considerate and supportive. Benefits suck as parental leave and 401k, Roth 401k, and mega backdoor Roth make it so you can really get ahead in terms of retirement building. They are trying to get better in culture and performance rather than some companies that don’t even pretend to care. During the pandemic there was no training. Now there’s some!

Cons

Base pay can be slightly lower than other companies for specific skills. Each site and each organization within each site has its own culture depending on who is the VP/executive team. There are so many executives it’s hard to get things done. Things move very slowly.

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