Many changes over time - Senior Business Architect Boeing Employee Review

3.0
13 Jan 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Continuing education is excellent, as is the 401k match in this day and age (although does it compare to the pension I used to accumulate back when I started?). Flexible work hours and a work from home day (depending on your work group of course) are also major benefits. Boeing does seem to be making changes to try to stay more competitive in response to industry pressure like the recent change to Parental Leave, which has now increased to 12 weeks. Medical benefits had always been a gold standard at Boeing and while they have taken many hits over time, and they're taking another big one in 2019, they still are a benefit. Boeing may not be a leader in many human resource areas, but they do try to keep the Titanic from hitting too many icebergs.

Cons

Change is hard to come by, and politics seems to rule. If you try to buck the trend and actually live the 'Boeing Values' and question the ingrained organizational structure to do what could actually save the company money you're going to hit roadblocks and career limitations. It is a struggle to stay motivated and find new avenues to promote ideas in a way that won't get shot down due to protectionism. As stated in the 'Pros', there has been an erosion of benefits over time. While the healthcare is still good, it is nowhere near what it used to be and not nearly the selling point that it once was. Management always told us that our salary may be lower than elsewhere, but that's because our benefits were so great. Well, our salary doesn't seem to have been bumped up to account for the changes and employees are being asked to take on more and more of the burden. Furthermore, in order to progress within the company, people have been encouraged to 'job hop' in the past rather than staying in place and growing their position. This leads to high turn over and difficulties maintaining a cohesive group and knowledge base. Right when people get trained and highly productive they are frustrated and ready to move forward so they look for opportunities elsewhere.

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Pros

Amazing team and management. There is a wealth of knowledge from multi-year veterans to tech-fellows and engineers who have been at this location since it was Douglas Jets.

Cons

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3.0
27 May 2026
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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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