Pros: Lots of areas to grow your career. Big company. Benefits are solid. 401k match is very good. You are only expected to work 40 hours a week. Work-life balance is very good. If they need you to work more than that (hardly ever happened to me and was almost always on a volunteer basis), they'll pay you overtime.

Cons: Boeing's a great engineering company, but they are not a software engineering company. As such, software is of secondary importance to them, and IT still seems to mostly be seen as a cost center to be minimized rather than an area for enabling the improvement of how we do business. Currently, Boeing is laying off a lot of people.

Pros: Cool people. Be around planes.

Cons: Everything else: management, pay, bureaucracy.

Pros: The benefits package is still first-rate, with top-notch health care and the usual perks. Bonuses are awarded annually based on various targets and individual performance metrics.

Cons: Boeing does not do software development well. They are a manufacturing company, and their IT department is underfunded. Most work is supporting existing applications, not new development. New development is outsourced because of the way internal budgeting works.