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Good benefits, outdated culture

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Boeing for 4 years
December 17, 2019
Saint Louis, Missouri
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Benefits, including salary, vacation, sick leave, and health insurance, were great.

Cons

Workplace culture included a lack of go-getters, people willing to think outside of the box, and people willing to challenge any status quo. "We've always done it this way" would perfectly summarize a lot of the technical and business leadership.

Software engineering expertise in general is extremely lacking, with many people having only cursory computer science / software engineering knowledge (but good problem domain / product knowledge). To make the point, if people's opinion on how important unit testing code is were polled, probably only half of the respondents would even know what it is, let alone have opinions on it.

Advice to Management

Think about the future. Don't let decades-long career engineers continue to keep technological processes stuck in the early 2000s.

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