Competent Management Lacking - Systems Engineer Boeing Employee Review

3.0
12 Jun 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There are many exciting aerospace programs and many locations around the world to work. Good benefits including full tuition cost for continued education. The Technical Fellowship program recognizes experts in their field. Boeing Leadership Center. Most locations have a gym.

Cons

Management capabilities leave a lot to be desired. Electronic 'chains' (laptops, cell phones, blackberry's) play havoc with work-life balance. Unless one has a 'sponsor', advancement is limited. The majority of time, promotions are not based on capability, but based on who you know. Having to work with people who don't pull their weight, who have been shuffled from one program to another because management won't expend the effort required to document the issues and get rid of them. Lot's of 'deadwood'.

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3.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Easy going, nice benefits, free further education (masters/PhD). Great for an engineer starting out who needs to dip their feet in the pool of engineering for a few years and to get a great 401(k) match at the start of your career (compounding growth). Great for late stage career due to the benefits and solid enough pay in a low cost of living area

Cons

pay-scale lagging, no emphasis on learning new things, no punishment for people who are bad at their job. After working for 4 years, I feel like I should have jumped ship after 2. I haven't been given meaningful work that really challenges me in a while. Now I feel pigeonholed into staying because I have enough years of experience that I really should be considered senior, but I haven't been given work that reflects what I senior engineer should be capable of. Now I'm trying to jump ship before it's really too late. If I stay here another 2 years I think I will be genuinely unemployable and will have to stay at this company forever.

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