Boeing

Huge company with tons of opportunity to move around to things you are interested in. I have had only good experiences with managers who were supportive of their employees. Excellent retirement benefits, pretty good medical and dental. Usually, managers are really flexible with schedules, and work-life balance is prioritized.

As a software developer, you are making about 30-40% less than what your peers are making at Microsoft, Amazon, etc. Those come with trade-offs (you get a very solid 40-hour work week, a more laid-back work environment, and family-oriented co-workers at Boeing), but if you are here to hustle, Boeing is not the company for you.

Much of the work for software developers involves updating legacy code or systems, which can be tedious. Boeing IT is still going through its digital transformation, so DevOps processes are messy, inconsistent from team to team, and there are no standard software practices.

If you want to have a competitive and viable software team at Boeing, you need to pay your early career/new hires more. Way more.

You are losing a lot of incredible talent to Amazon and Microsoft, especially in Seattle.

You may be okay with the cost benefits for now, but there will be a day where a competitor that has properly paid their software core will blow Boeing out of the water.