A good company crippled by bad senior management - Manager Boeing Employee Review

3.0
13 Sept 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You get to work on some leading edge technology with some great people. The pay and benefits are some of the highest in the industry. If you're willing to move around, you can move up quickly through the company. They're trying to improve the company culture and reduce the bureaucracy that had a tendency to slow things to a crawl. Most people believe Dennis Muilenberg really wants to make it happen. I know I did. Without it, Boeing will become another dinosaur that falls off the S&P 500 in a few decades.

Cons

They have a large portion of senior managers that refuse to help make the changes necessary to compete in the future. Many of the ones I worked with were apathetic, and only cared about their upcoming retirement or the next golf game (usually during working hours under the guise of customer relations). It was frustrating enough for me to take a pay cut and leave for another company.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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