Boeing

Flexible schedule, lots of sick leave, and educational benefits are great. You can learn about anything. Most people are willing to teach about their work. There's tons of opportunity. If you're good at networking, you can find interesting assignments.

Management faces no consequence for bad decision-making. I've seen projects years late and overbudget, and the managers just get moved to new projects. Engineering has to deal with all the problems as a result of their terrible planning.

The "good ol' boys club" is evident as you get higher in the management structure. Technical fellows are mostly old men with egos who typically add limited value. All these people are the backbone of the company and contribute to things being way late and overbudget. It doesn't take that much digging to see multiple Boeing products that were way late and overbudget:

• 787
• Tanker
• 777X
• CST-100

Managers/executives who make unrealistic schedules that ultimately reduce quality and later lead to delays should be fired. There needs to be a realignment of management's priorities to being product-focused as opposed to schedule-focused. Also, managers need to be more technically involved.