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Good company, but overworked and under-appreciated in the wrong job

Static Loads Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Boeing for less than 1 year
February 27, 2012
Renton, Washington
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Opportunities to travel and gain some great experience working with other companies.

Paid to attend relevant courses.

Supportive supervisors and first-level management.

Cons

Hired mostly college grads and exploited their eagerness to pay them less and make them work lots of overtime.

Very little direction was given on projects.

Constantly changing analysis software, expecting employees to become experts in a few weeks and provide professional results immediately after.

Significant contributions to project success earned a "satisfactory" rating on performance reviews.

Advice to Management

When you bring in new graduates, work with them to place them in an area where they will thrive and grow, instead of getting exhausted and quitting.

Also: If your employees perform well, acknowledge it verbally and give them a good review. Don't just send them a printed form certificate saying "Thanks!" along with just enough points to buy $20 of cheap plastic crap from the company store.

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