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Move or you'll get stuck!

Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Boeing for 20 years
August 12, 2014
Everett, Washington
2.0
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Pros

Benefits and salary are very competitive.

If you're lucky, you get a fun group or at least one person that becomes family.

Those two things are what kept me here so long.

Cons

If you don't move around every 3 years or so, you won't acquire any new skills and you'll delay your growth.

Everything, every process, and everybody moves at a slow pace. They pay you the same no matter how fast or slow you do it.

Some people are known to delay things just to start a "fire" and be heard.

Women get paid less. Yes, I'm a woman. It's just a fact and it's ridiculous.

Women are often given more administrative tasks, whereas men will be trusted more with the technical reviews and analysis of things.

Advice to Management

Management needs to care more about their employees. I can tell that my manager has no clue what he's talking about 80% of the time. I catch on to his attempts to finish the employee's sentences to appear as if he knows what's going on.

If the group is too large for you to understand what everyone is doing, say something. We can tell when you don't know what we're doing. It makes me wonder what I need a manager for at all.

Be intentional and purposeful with your meetings and communications. Many people would rather work that extra hour than sit through a meeting.

Be clear, be transparent with communication, and communicate often. There's nothing more refreshing than hearing raw information and not having things sugar coated. Stand up and lead.

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