Boeing

A very stable and respectable company with a great history of designing and building innovative and complex products. The work assignments are fun, and co-workers are helpful and enthusiastic about the product they work on. The pay and benefits are competitive. Plenty of opportunities for promotions if you work hard. Flexible work schedules usually allow for a good work/life balance.

While benefits are competitive, vacation time is below market. The workplace culture can be very negative, which is mostly driven by the lack of respect upper management has for their employees. You often just feel like a number.

The company has also taken on the McDonnell-Douglas business plan of cutting costs above all else, rather than focus on a quality product for the customer.

Continue to invest in your employees, since they're your most precious resource.

Your constant threats of moving work out of state is having a very negative effect on employee morale, and is driving away the best and brightest you need to develop the next generation of products.

Engineering isn't just a line item in the budget; we turn the concept into a reality.