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Decent pay, great job security, but somewhat mundane work

Software Engineer III
Former Employee
Worked at Boeing for 6 years
August 29, 2014
El Segundo, California
3.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Decent (not spectacular) pay, excellent benefits (i.e., insurance), reasonable working hours, and almost impossible to get fired.

Cons

Giant pyramid management structure where it takes forever to get anything done.

As an employee, you usually feel like a very tiny cog in a massive, complex machine.

The pace of progress is so slow that if you took every other week off and worked hard during your hours there, there would be no meaningful impact to performance.

If you want to join the management team, you should get something equivalent to an MBA. However, there are so many managers that working your way to upper management will take 20+ years.

If you want to be an executive, don't. It's a highly political game at the upper echelons, and it's very loosely based on performance.

Advice to Management

You can remove around 50% of the managers and still get the same work output. The structure of the projects is unnecessarily complex, leading to hugely excessive overhead (e.g., unnecessary meetings, cost overruns for work that adds little value, constant decision flux that ends up wasting lots of time as people vacillate over decisions, etc.).

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