Boeing

Boeing provides plenty of opportunities to learn about various subjects pertinent to your degree and background, as well as subjects outside of your comfort zone.

There are plenty of resources and a large network of employees to learn from and also mentor. You may receive decent compensation relative to the market and your peers when you first hire on. The stock price and stock fund are currently rocking!

Boeing is rich enough now to hold the lion's share of the commercial aerospace market, which can be leveraged to dominate the defense business of the house.

Basically, Boeing is a "government junior." Boeing is weighed down by bureaucracy and is way too process-heavy. Because of the inefficient promotion processes, Boeing will not correct your pay when you are underpaid. You basically have to threaten to quit and show them you have other higher-paying options for them to even consider a raise and promotion.

It's guaranteed HR and management will throw the "market" or "business case" argument at you because their hands are tied to corporate processes. It gives them an excuse to not care about you, in other words.

Also, there are many employees there who hardly do any work and get to ride on the coattails of hardworking people, inherently a consequence of poor processes for firing people or at least holding people accountable.

If you're a believer in working hard with merit rewards, you might want to stay clear.

You'll continue to train and develop entry-level people who will just leave for greener pastures if you are unwilling to fix the promotion and compensation processes. When it's easier to hire off the street than it is to promote valued employees (or give them equity adjustments) from within, you have a problem.