A place of good intention and a century of baggage. - Senior User Experience Product Designer Boeing Employee Review

3.0
28 Aug 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Boeing has taken really good care of me since joining out of college over the years, but really needs to step up it's game to remain competitive (in software). Company leadership have become awakened to the powers of agile, user centered design and devops, but the other verticals of the company (facilities, hr) are not prepared or are reluctant to do what they need to retain the top talent. I was taken care of and was kept relatively happy as a software engineer for five years, but after wanting more out of my career pursued a position of high stress, high visibility and potentially high payoff. Only the stress and visibility pieces materialized.

Cons

Corporate bureaucracy runs amok. The majority of employees at Boeing are happy with corporate tranquility and that can be an pain for high performers. Ex Co has a desire to be adaptive and modern but a century of middle management bloat stops that desire from becoming something.

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5.0
16 May 2026
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Pros

Amazing team and management. There is a wealth of knowledge from multi-year veterans to tech-fellows and engineers who have been at this location since it was Douglas Jets.

Cons

Non-production facility. You don't get to see the planes come off the production-line like you would in the Seattle-area locations.

3.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Easy going, nice benefits, free further education (masters/PhD). Great for an engineer starting out who needs to dip their feet in the pool of engineering for a few years and to get a great 401(k) match at the start of your career (compounding growth). Great for late stage career due to the benefits and solid enough pay in a low cost of living area

Cons

pay-scale lagging, no emphasis on learning new things, no punishment for people who are bad at their job. After working for 4 years, I feel like I should have jumped ship after 2. I haven't been given meaningful work that really challenges me in a while. Now I feel pigeonholed into staying because I have enough years of experience that I really should be considered senior, but I haven't been given work that reflects what I senior engineer should be capable of. Now I'm trying to jump ship before it's really too late. If I stay here another 2 years I think I will be genuinely unemployable and will have to stay at this company forever.

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