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Good for a career, mediocre for engineering satisfaction

Stability & Control Intern
Former Employee
Worked at Boeing for less than 1 year
December 5, 2008
Renton, Washington
4.0
RecommendsNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Stable career with interesting tasks. The Learning Together program is quite generous, while the engineers' union (SPEEA) ensures fair overtime pay and benefits. It impresses people from out of town.

Cons

Work can be mundane. Everything is checked and rechecked for correctness. Engineers contribute minutely to each massive project. As a sprawling corporation, it can be hard to coordinate schedules among management and even other employees. It's easy to feel insignificant when a project that dominates your work hours may be discarded at the end because of management whim. Some engineering tools are antiquated; we only had one MATLAB license among a 20-person group.

Advice to Management

Figure out a way to make the company feel smaller.

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