Boeing

The company is very comfy to work at, and the pay and bennies are pretty decent. The workload is pretty manageable, and I didn't often feel pressured to work more than 40 hours a week. Engineers still get overtime, which is amazing. There are a lot of people that work there that are passionate about aerospace with amazing stories. Two weeks off at Christmas is nice, even if I feel the less senior people at the company could use more vacation time. Just don't expect much of a pay raise unless you get extremely lucky and work on an important project.

When I started, I really enjoyed it. Granted, I was younger and this was my first job at a large company.

It quickly becomes obvious that most engineers are just interchangeable "work units" to management, intended to crank out product. Despite what they tell you, moving from position to position is not wise to do for career advancement because of their horrible skill code system. If you switch skill codes, you essentially reset any possibility of a promotion for at least 3-4 years.

They fire and re-hire people on a regular cycle to keep costs down. If you are okay with the possibility of "boomeranging" back and forth from employment to unemployment every 3 years or so, go for it.

When they finally let me go during COVID after 9 consecutive years of service and surviving several mass layoffs, I decided I didn't want to do that anymore and have since switched careers.

Work on retaining young talent. Nobody who is in their 20s is going to want to work at this company for more than a couple years, and your workforce isn't getting any younger.

Maybe take a look at how the tech sector treats talent.