Not the place for Developers - Programmer/Analyst II Boeing Employee Review

1.0
8 Mar 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Depends on your group, but in general Boeing is very flexible with work. - Room to move up since lots of people are retiring.

Cons

- Benefits WAS good when you were able to get a hold of pension (doesn't offer it anymore) and the LTP (pays for education in full) before it was watered down with restrictions. - In general the healthcare benefits are mediocre at best. They'll tell you that their benefits are comparable to other companies, but they don't hold a light to companies like Microsoft/Amazon/etc. I have friends who work at a grocer company that offers better healthcare plan than Boeing does. - This is not the place to be doing development work. For those aspiring SDE and SDET, please take my advice and look elsewhere (I had to learn the hard way). Runnnnnnn now!!!!!!! You feel your skills rust at a rapid place here. - Everything is very slow moving. Its hard to get things done. - Pay sucks for developers. You'll get better elsewhere. - They say that want to attract and retain young talent, but they do poorly once they get you in the door.

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Cons

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Recommend
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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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