Boeing

Great benefits: low-cost health/dental care, tuition assistance (full cost for technical degrees), profit sharing, 401K (75% to 8% of pay), good camaraderie, and a well-being program.

Great job satisfaction working with the best Aerospace/Defense company in the world.

Boeing invests a lot in R&D to stay innovative.

They cherish young engineers and are working hard to replace the aging/retiring demographic.

Pay is competitive but not at the high end. Cost cutting is a major driver limiting raises and promotions.

The defense side of the business is shrinking and consolidating in relatively lower-cost states, and the commercial side is struggling with costs to be competitive.

Career paths are self-driven for the most part, unless you get a good manager or are lucky.

On the defense side, moving from program to program is hampered. When a program ends, finding work is typically hard.

Transitioning to management is difficult and is done through a good old boy network, disguised as a competitive requisition process.

Recently implemented, the management incentive program has effectively been 17% for the last two years.