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OK place to work if you're just interested in a paycheck and retirement

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Boeing for less than 1 year
October 22, 2009
Mesa, Arizona
3.0
Doesn't Approve of CEO
Pros
  • Great health care
  • Moderate to good pay
  • Good educational benefits. They used to have great educational benefits, but they made major cuts with the economic downturn. You'll owe several years to the company for any educational benefits.
  • Good relocation benefits
  • Verify flexible schedules
  • Fellow employees are generally friendly
Cons
  • Innovation is not highly encouraged.
  • Get stuck on outdated, multiyear projects and lose all your technical skills.
  • Retiree heavy; older employees run the company and are set in their ways, not friendly to change.
  • Hard to get promoted; promotions are based on years of experience rather than know-how and performance; generally, you have to move to get a promotion.
  • Lots of accounting and oversight; very outdated systems.
  • Little in the way of leadership from managers; they mostly count beans and heckle you whenever they get heckled by their bosses.
  • Performance feedback seems greatly lacking; solid performance is not encouraged or rewarded.
  • May get loaned out to other projects for long periods of time.
Advice to Management
  • The business model is outdated.
  • We need to focus on innovation, reducing poor processes, and legacy systems.
  • Practice the lean+ that's preached so much.
  • Don't stifle new ideas immediately. That just makes innovative folks leave and go to other companies (or start their own).
  • Focus on winning contracts, not just maintaining systems that we've already sold.

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