Boeing

Boeing is probably not unlike many large companies, in that the employees' experiences will vary significantly across functions, sites, and programs. Some of the pros of the company are:

• Employees have the opportunity to work on some very exciting aerospace platforms.
• Benefits are good.
• There is the opportunity to work with some very bright and passionate people.

• In the defense sector, especially, the company has simply not won many recent contracts. There have been recent voluntary and involuntary layoffs.

• My current program has been very badly managed, resulting in consistently being behind schedule. Management's solution to this is mandatory overtime. This is not a positive work environment, to say the least. Again, this is my current program, and others that I have worked on were not nearly as dysfunctional.

• The engineering staff is very top-heavy, and as a result, there have been very limited promotions recently.

Ensure that the company's stated values ("People First", "First Time Quality", etc.) are actually given more than just lip service on the programs.