Boeing

Culture is very friendly and inviting. You can rotate to other programs fairly easily. You don't have to work long hours, but OT may be available depending on the program.

• Low pay. For any decent pay, you must operate one level higher at all times. It's a wannabe tech grind but doesn't reward with high-level pay.

• Lack of team consistency. Every team and program is different; some are more modern, and others are archaic.

• Direct and skip managers are great, but upper leadership doesn't operate at the expectations needed.

• A lot of Boeing lifers are stuck on old processes, which makes implementation or introduction of new processes difficult.

• I'm bored and feel like I am stagnating.

Listen to your technical peers. Increase salaries to match the software market and change interviews to be more technical in order to attract the needed talent.