Boeing

Good pay versus competitors, flexible hours, and good health and dental benefits.

You learn a lot from your coworkers and by experiencing interesting work.

There are lots of resources to help you in your job. 80 hours of sick leave each year.

Too much bureaucracy. Too many layers of management with very little to no real leadership. Lots of managers but not many leaders.

Very hard to transfer to the job you really want because managers won't let you go. Job security is a worry every year with layoffs occurring, and the local union SPEEA is not helpful.

Overtime pay in Seattle is a joke ($6.50 an hour plus regular pay). Work fluctuates, and sometimes the work is not very challenging.

Projects take years to be approved due to decisions being made by committee and managers second-guessing each other. Your time in your Engineering Group can be a blessing with the right people and manager; however, if you get stuck in the wrong group with a terrible manager, your life will be hell.

Boeing recently cut the pension for engineers, and yearly salary raises are significantly reduced. Boeing also has way too much outsourcing, where the company is losing control of the products and losing capabilities.

Cut several layers of management.

Change the culture to make sure people are the most valuable resource.

Take control of the product and stop outsourcing everything.

Overtime pay needs to be changed.