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    Boeing Reviews

    Updated 20 June 2018
    6,135 reviews

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    • "Work life balance can be a challenge in some jobs but not all jobs fall into this category" (in 121 reviews)

    • "Sometimes upper management is too involved in daily operation" (in 111 reviews)

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    1. "Administrative Assistant"

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      Current Employee - Administrative Assistant in Yeovil, England
      Current Employee - Administrative Assistant in Yeovil, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Boeing full-time (More than 8 years)

      Pros

      Innovative; great diversity and inclusion; exceptional Work-life balance; Employee focused; engaged; great scope to expand your skills; aligned and focused on the community. My greatest WOW moment? it happens every working day.

      Cons

      That I didn't go to work for Boeing company when I started my working life. I honestly, can not think of any negative events in working for this company.

      Advice to Management

      Continue to innovate, improve and lead by example. Your respect, energy, mentoring, and support has not gone without notice.

    2. "Very good"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Boeing full-time

      Pros

      Senior staff treat you well

      Cons

      Long hours that really drag on if you aren't doing anything

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    3. "Trade Compliance specialist"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Bristol, England
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Bristol, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      I have been working at Boeing full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Great company with excellent benefits. Lots of opportunities t o explore

      Cons

      Bureaucracy can be heavy at times

    4. Helpful (2)

      "Lack of good leadership"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      Pros

      Good benefits package but comes at a cost of putting up with people who are only there because of the package. They don’t want to work hard or help transform the business.

      Cons

      The leadership is extremely poor and has created a culture of fear. They don’t listen to SMEs and treat junior staff like children. Total lack of roles and responsibilities generating an environment of confusion which causes a lot of frustration.

      Culture driven by the bottom line treating staff as a commodity which they can get rid off. Always looking at restructuring (redundancies) as leadership are unable to forecast properly.

      Advice to Management

      Senior Managers need to get the view of the staff as the Managers are suppressing their voice as they don’t want you to know how they are managing their teams.

      You need to change the culture at a senior level and work through the various levels. There are two many managers, many of whom protect each other rather than deal with the issues.

      Listen to the experts you have employed. Support them and allow them the freedom to use their skills.

      Create an open and supportive culture that encourages innovation.

    5. Helpful (1)

      "Programmer"

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      Current Employee - Programmer Analyst in Bristol, England
      Current Employee - Programmer Analyst in Bristol, England

      I have been working at Boeing full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Good Benefits. Great work life balance

      Cons

      Career progression is limited

    6. "Interesting work but with poor, USA-centric leadership"

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      Current Employee - Enterprise Services in London, England
      Current Employee - Enterprise Services in London, England
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Boeing full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Basic work engaging, products cool and Europe team decent including regional leadership . Job security as company growing exponentially. That’s all.

      Cons

      USA Execs won’t release control, causes delays and poor decisions. Bureaucracy gone mad. Politics everywhere. Senior Executives are looking after themselves. Company growth internationally with typical USA do before you think mentality.

      Advice to Management

      Regional autonomy is needed. Cut out the extreme politics. Empower people. Streamline confused processes.

    7. "Design Engineer"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Boeing full-time

      Pros

      Stable statement of work and working hours, supportive team environment, interesting assignments with opportunities to transfer laterally into other groups.

      Cons

      Like many large companies, it can be slow to implement changes or push innovative ideas.

    8. Helpful (1)

      "Boeing"

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      Current Employee - Senior Service Desk Analyst in Bristol, England
      Current Employee - Senior Service Desk Analyst in Bristol, England
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Boeing full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Good Benefits / working environment

      Cons

      Currently not a lot of room for progression

      Advice to Management

      Look what’s actually happening on the ground

    9. Helpful (1)

      "Boeing Information Services, to be avoided like the plague."

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Milton Keynes, England
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Milton Keynes, England
      Recommends
      Negative Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Boeing full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      The Boeing Company is awesome, great ethics, great culture, bad choices in managers for programmes though. BIS is staffed by a great team of dedicated professionals led by rank amateurs that I wouldn’t put in charge of a MacDonald’s restaurant.

      Cons

      BIS is very badly managed and should be avoided. The senior team is a bunch of sycophants that have been promoted well beyond their worth, the senior manager is nowhere to be seen. Bad decision after bad decision, with absolutely no plan or forethought. Zero strategy, zero ability to generate new work and zero ability to manage what they have. I won’t be here long.

      Advice to Management

      You have a very competent team of people who deserved better than you. Do them and your customers a favour and move on.

    10. Helpful (1)

      "Nice work for retired Army personnel."

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Boeing full-time

      Pros

      Good company values at the high level. Go for zero safety etc.

      Cons

      Ex-Army bods trying to run an IT operation totally out of touch with what's going on.
      My boss had no idea of what I was trying to achieve professionally and just kept cracking the whip. Even if you're proactive to prevent escalation of problems, you don't get any recognition for it, so you end up working for nothing. I think you have to carry a 30kg backpack whilst working at a computer to gain any recognition. No flexibility with working hours and location was terrible to commute to in Bristol. Parking was limited. Split-site teams working in silos.

      Advice to Management

      Its not enough just to talk the talk about how great things are. Get to know people at the coalface who are trying to make things better but not getting any recognition for it. Sales people bidding for contract work and not enough staff to deliver so they are put under increasing pressures.

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