Pros: Great opportunities within the company for advancement. Employees are very proud of the work that they do and the products they create. Great place to start an engineering career. Great entry-level pay rates with a decent benefits package. Plus, you get to work on some of the most innovative, cutting-edge projects on the planet.

Cons: It's sometimes easy to get lost within the company, since it is so large. Pay starts out very good, but raises are not competitive compared to the rest of the industry. Therefore, the lack of raises does not keep experienced employees around for very long. Some of the processes are archaic.

Pros: Boeing offers good benefits. Being a large company, there is always the possibility of a new direction coming with new management.

Cons: There is no future in manned space flight at Boeing in Houston, Texas. There are only a handful of projects, which are mostly sustaining, and even those are starting to downsize. The management has become increasingly worse over the years. It has become too much to stay. The leadership has boiled down to a small group trying to desperately remain in power. They lack vision and motivation to grow the company.

Pros: Fascinating and engaging work until our development contract got near completion, then it got boring. They do (or did) compensate you at a premium rate for overtime if you're a salaried employee. Generally great benefits, although somebody who goes to work for Boeing now doesn't get the same deal as the long-term employees. The company has been shifting more and more to portable defined-contribution post-employment benefits (via the Voluntary Investment Plan, Boeingspeak for a 401(k)), but the long-term employees like me got a non-portable pension.

Cons: Work-life balance stinks as you're expected to work until the job's finished. Leadership promises the world to the customer, as the aerospace business works contract to contract. At least my management told me to save my money, and I took it to heart. Training is good, and if you are temporarily between tasks, there were a lot of voluntary training opportunities available.