Good to be at the top - Procurement Agent Boeing Employee Review

2.0
2 Aug 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Lots of training available. And after you have been there a year you can go to college. Some good people there. Many are getting ready to retire or get laid off.

Cons

Bureaucracy on steroids. The executives at the top are using stock buybacks and raising the dividend to enrich themselves at the expense of partnering with their employees and suppliers. People who run the airplane programs make billion dollar mistakes and expect the suppliers and salary employees to pay for them. Corruption and unethical behavior are rampant even though the employees have to sign a "Code of Conduct" every year. 90% of first line managers are completely out of their league, and the company doesn't do anything except pile more e-mail and meetings on them. And it only gets worse the higher up the management chain you go. The merry go round of lower level management doesn't help morale either. Very hard to get promoted these days and raises are skimpy unless you are in management.

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5.0
16 June 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fantastic benefits and work-life balance. 401k match is unmatched!

Cons

Easy to get pigeon-holed into a role. Try exploring ways to stay pro-active and do different things

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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