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Good place to make yourself obsolete

Project Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Boeing for 6 years
December 13, 2014
Everett, Washington
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros
  • Market-leading health insurance, but it will probably go away in 2016.
  • Pension benefits, but who knows how long those will last.
  • Free education.
  • You can coast your whole career if that's what you want.
Cons
  • Politics, especially among management.
  • Jobs and responsibility are so diluted; you don't develop your skills as fast here as at other companies. If you stay too long, nobody else will value you, and Boeing knows it, so they start paying you below market.
  • Below market salary.
  • No respect and undervaluing of engineers.
Advice to Management

People think this is a great place if they haven't worked at any other Fortune 500 companies, or if they have unmarketable skills. There are much better options out there, and I'm glad I left when I did. I spent 7 years here, and it was 7 years too many.

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