Poor Culture is Extremely Tiresome - Industrial Engineer Boeing Employee Review

2.0
24 June 2019
Recommend
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Pros

There are plenty of smart, good people who are a joy to work with. I personally do not work long hours so work life balance isn't bad. There is room to grow in your career if you plan to stay at Boeing a long time.

Cons

Boeing has a very toxic work culture. It rewards people for exaggerating about the success of the work that they do. Only positive information is shared with management, and failures are blamed on others. Teams point fingers at each other and never self reflect. Some teams are worked into the ground with forced overtime. There is a huge lack of respect for people. Lower level employees are completely ignored when they approach management and higher level engineers with ideas. The leadership culture is very top-down. There is a lot of pressure on management to push forward with projects in order to obtain desired metrics, at the expense of the happiness of employees. I want it to be clear: There are lots of different teams in Boeing, and the culture varies a lot between different manufacturing sites. The 737 site is struggling the most.

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Cons

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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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