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.
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.
Figure out a way to make the company feel smaller.
The engineering manager and 2nd level manager asked about my interest in Boeing, described the role, and we discussed how my skillset could contribute to the organizational goals. This was a new team they were building and were looking for very speci
It was a series of phone calls. The first was just to gauge if you would be a good fit for the job. The second was with a group of people asking star-related questions. It holds a lot of weight, though.
Interview quests were canned and scripted. Interviewers were instructed to stay with pre-selected questions. If you do more than one interview, you will become familiar with them. More daring interviewers would not be intimidated by the mandate to st
The engineering manager and 2nd level manager asked about my interest in Boeing, described the role, and we discussed how my skillset could contribute to the organizational goals. This was a new team they were building and were looking for very speci
It was a series of phone calls. The first was just to gauge if you would be a good fit for the job. The second was with a group of people asking star-related questions. It holds a lot of weight, though.
Interview quests were canned and scripted. Interviewers were instructed to stay with pre-selected questions. If you do more than one interview, you will become familiar with them. More daring interviewers would not be intimidated by the mandate to st