Boeing

Some pretty amazing projects.

Still quite a few experienced people around, as well as a good group of younger people.

Opportunities to get promoted exist if you get into the right groups.

IT is outsourced to Dell. They want to keep costs low, so you will get a slow laptop and a very small monitor. This is typical of Boeing's thinking. It's easy to calculate how much money they save by doing this, but the impact on productivity is harder to measure. Getting tools, hardware, and software is painful, and most are rejected.

Labor is our biggest expense, so maximize the productivity of those employees. Give them the tools they need and let them produce.