Good Technical Management - Lacking Program Management - Software Engineer IV Boeing Employee Review

3.0
9 Aug 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, compensation and flexible work hours. Technical leadership at my Boeing site is wonderful and encouraging. I'm challenged to grow my technical ability. Great 401K plan and pension for those of us hired before 2009.

Cons

Poor program management so much that Boeing tolerates management screaming and yelling at employees. Program management does not come to see us if we work in another building other than the main Boeing building. Communication is generally ineffective between functional managers and employees. The good functional managers leave for greener pastures or get a pink slip if funding goes away. Engineering staff usually takes over the project the right way because the functional managers seem to not be technical. There seems to be a revolving door at the Director and VP levels and nobody knows why certain people are removed "abruptly". Older folks who dress in beach lounge attire and sneakers are left to sit in their cubes and think about why the wind blows while other good people get axed. Communication downward to the peons is non existent. No real career path upward unless the senior technical program person pushes senior functional management for your upward movement. Benefits are fading away and medical plans are starting to take a lot more out of my pocket due to higher coinsurance rates. Entering workday time is mandatory and becomes a pain point when you don't have Internet access in another building.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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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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