Boeing

Nobody expects you to work more than 40 hours a week. If you are just looking to cruise through life and make a decent living, it's not a bad place.

They used to have an awesome tuition program for continuing education, but it has been scaled back.

Not challenging. Be prepared for layers of systems engineering bureaucracy. I engineered nothing but paperwork.

The place is a sinking ship with uncompetitive products, run by old fogies who think because the place was innovative in the '70s, they can lay back and relax. Non-compete government contracts are the cash cow that keep this place afloat, so managers are big customer butt kissers. Definition of the military-industrial complex.

You hired very bright people from the best schools for work that high schoolers could do. Expect more from people and challenge them technically. The company needs to take bigger risks and bring visionary ideas to customers instead of uninteresting baby steps.