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Flexibility Over Talent

Software Engineer II
Current Employee
Has worked at Boeing for less than 1 year
March 20, 2012
3.0
No CEO Opinion
Pros

Casual dress. Flexible hours. Impossible to get fired once you are in. Decent benefits (although the pension was recently deprecated).

Cons

Technical leads are anything but technical.

Leadership seems to be gained by time of service as opposed to talent.

Talent seems to go elsewhere, leaving unqualified people in charge.

Massive bureaucracy, and nothing gets done on a timely basis.

Benefits have been pared down every year.

Advice to Management

There is way too much overhead. It seems we have to do more work to call ourselves lean. The company insists that it wants to attract talent; however, it fails to keep it, leaving unqualified people as technical leads and best practices are often ignored.

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