Boeing

Boeing has great benefits. They will pay for any college courses you want, whether it is a music class at the local community college or working on a new degree. The classes are not required to be related to the job.

Also, the health benefits are better than I have heard of at any other similar company.

Another reason to work for Boeing is the vast knowledge base of the engineers there. If you are a young engineer looking to improve your skills and knowledge of engineering, what you will learn here is far better than you will in any classroom.

I felt like the management there had trouble seeing the big picture.

By this I mean they would be so focused on meeting the schedule that they would make decisions to complete a task poorly, to check it off their schedule, and that work would need to be redone later.

If they saw the big picture, they would have made a better decision a day late and saved a ton of future work down the road.

I saw these kinds of decisions over and over again.

It's not good for morale when management works this way.

Another downside at Boeing is the salary.

I didn't feel like the monetary compensation was as good as it should have been.

I also thought the annual pay raises were a bit low, but the amount of any raises are partially dictated by the engineering union.

Thing more long-term.