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PROS:

- Good Benefits
- Excellent Retirement Benefits (6% company match + 3% for free)
- Overall pretty good work-life balance, flexible schedule
- Good coworkers, most are very smart and pleasant to work with
- Allowed to WFH full-time during Covid-19 (up until I left in mid-2020)

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CONS:

I worked in 2 different teams during my time at Boeing, the DSP Algorithms team and the Satellite Flight Software team. These were both under the Defense/Space side of Boeing, so I can only speak about my experience within that branch of the company.

BUREAUCRACY:
Boeing is a huge company, so there’s a stifling amount of bureaucracy that you have to deal with here. Literally every step of your work has to be reviewed and approved by several people. Boeing loves to preach about innovation but the truth is that the bureaucracy stifles any breath of innovation, as there’s almost always a mentality of, “We’ve always done things this way!" or " It works, so don’t change it!”

INCOMPETENT MANAGEMENT:
Almost all of the managers I worked with were frustrating to work with in some capacity, and many really didn't seem to care about their employees:

I was initially hired to work as a DSP Algorithms Engineer at Boeing. After a few months, I realized that the type of work that they do (Simulink & MATLAB) was not what I wanted to spend 8-9 hours of my day on, so I asked management if I could switch to a team that works on software. They were initially understanding and supportive of my decision, but after only about 3 months being able to work on software, they pulled me back into doing systems engineering work for 6 months. The worst part was that they did not even give me this news through an in-person chat (this was pre-COVID); they simply notified me through an email... Because nothing screams "we care about our employees" like telling them they have to immediately switch back to doing the work they disliked for half a year through an email...

Another manager that I worked with for my first program basically micromanaged me and constantly asked me for my progress status almost every day at a certain point, because the program had slipped in schedule. I was a new-hire at the time, and was the only person actively working on verification, so I have no idea how they expected me to meet their schedule virtually alone.

The final task I had to complete for the systems engineering team before switching to the software team for the first time was a software tool to allow the hardware team to do some of their verification testing. This same manager slept on the code that I gave their team for 9 MONTHS before properly testing it, and then expected me to prioritize working on his program to debug that software tool while also working full-time on the software team. They had the audacity to claim that their program had “a much more pressing schedule” than the software team's, yet somehow didn't bother to test my software tool with their hardware for 9 months.

Another manager that I worked under did not seem to understand that I was frequently being pulled into doing work for both the systems and the software teams at the same time due to program schedules. They kept insisting that I put in a full 40 hours a week to keep up with my software tasks, and to only work on the “urgent” systems engineering task as overtime. This was right when COVID-19 and lockdowns were starting, and everyone was already anxious about the situation. Because I was frequently being bothered by my former team and the hardware team to help debug work that I hadn't touched for nearly a year, I was unable to complete all of the tasks I was given on the software team in time. This was held against me by this manager, who didn't allow me to officially switch into the software team due to many of my software tasks slipping schedule. Frustratingly, this same manager was the one that told my primary manager to reassign me back into doing systems work in the first place. They had me reassigned to a team outside of software, yet when I was back on software, complained that I wasn't getting the work done in time, which was also partly due to my lack of experience with the processes that the software team followed, which I could've avoided if I was never reassigned outside of the software team in the first place. This pathetic excuse of a manager was the biggest reason why I eventually left, as they obviously did not care about their employees.

LACK OF HANDS-ON WORK:
Both teams that I worked on while at Boeing involved working with the hardware. However, we engineers on these teams did not get the opportunity to WORK on or test our designs/code on actual hardware. Instead, ALL of the work that we did was tested in simulations. Yes, Boeing is so compartmentalized that the people who do hands-on testing with the hardware are completely separate teams, and in my experience, I never even worked with them. If you're like me and enjoy working with/seeing the physical side of your engineering efforts, Boeing is probably not the company you want to work for...

DEPRESSING WORK ENVIRONMENT:
Across the 2 teams that I worked with while at Boeing, I worked in 3 different locations. All 3 were cube farms, with the last one before I left being the most depressing of all; it was basically a giant warehouse with about 100 cubes crammed into it. It was stuffy, contained no windows, and suffered from bad lighting. Forcing everyone to work from home because of the COVID situation was actually a bit of a blessing in this sense, as I no longer had to come into a stuffy, depressing cube farm everyday.

LACK OF AMBITION:
Like I said in the Pros section, many of the people (non-managers) I worked with were good and smart people, but you’d be hard-pressed to find any employees who truly enjoy their job and look forward to coming in to work everyday. A large amount of the people I worked with were either complacent in their current role or were applying to leave the company as soon as they could. This is a company where your ambition dies the longer you stay here.

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ADVICE TO MANAGEMENT

Listen to your engineers first and foremost. If they require the use of modern software tools to more reliably do their job, give it to them. Don’t be so incredibly stingy with the budget, invest in more modern tools and internal tools.

Be more understanding with individual employees’ situations. Virtually none of the leads or managers that I worked with were understanding of my being forced to work on several programs at once, and they all expected my full time & focus on these programs.

Overhaul the work environment so that people aren’t so depressed and unmotivated as soon as they get into the office. This isn’t the 1950’s anymore, there are other work layouts other than just cube farms.

Due to our site closure, my career at the Boeing Wichita facility is now ending after 31 years.  I have been pondering past achievements that I have been obliged to experience, all which of course contain some good and bad.  There were various elements within these experiences that allowed me to justify staying around here so very long.  Regarding the bad, there have been years that I struggled with my frustration from some bad management decisions or, my trying to get things done per a very tight schedule and perhaps applying some common sense reasoning into our daily activities.  That last one was a real challenge!  All in all, the good of it is that I survived just like most everyone else that has left this place or is leaving today.  We still have retained some pride of a job well done but perhaps would have wanted to prove ourselves a little longer.  

    Primarily, it is a mistake to close this facility.  For all this site has been through in the last 85 years, let alone the last 30 I have seen, we will be losing something special when we close.  That special thing is synergy.  It is amazing what this site for nearly one century has accomplished from its infinitesimal beginning as a manufacture of cloth covered bi-planes to building five or more B17 bombers a day and an amazing quantity of B29’s in an effort to fight a world war.  This military division did not stop at building just those war machines but, continued on with manufacturing B47’s and B52’s to circumvent the threat of a cold war and protect our national security and that of the world.  Much later on in the 21st century, President Bush came to Wichita in June 2006 to convey to everyone on the Presidential Modification Program his great pride to be flying around the world in a plane that showed the majesty of our country.  He was so proud of how Boeing people in Wichita could maintain and retrofit an aircraft platform that he depended upon every moment he was aboard it.  He had reflected on one particular characteristic that was prevalent on all programs during all the years this site has been open.  The unique synergy we had to achieve the impossible time and again which could provide a superior product to the customer.  

     If you include the Commercial end of our ventures when we were a whole site, then you have to recognize the major achievements for modifying passenger jets into Cargo freighters plus the thousands of Boeing fuselages built here and transported to Seattle for a final, joined aircraft assembly.  It was that synergy at this division by a group of people that came together for decades to develop systems or processes that would allow the completion of these program requirements.  We were not always on time and if our manufacturing ability did not always function as expected, the extra effort by the employees made it work.  We were the glue that kept this enterprise rolling along.  To be sure when an aircraft part, assembly or completely modified jet left the Boeing Wichita Division, it was at the quality the customer first visualized, expected and finally received.  

     Consider as we close this facility the quality of the people that have remained these past two years at the Boeing Wichita - Military Division.  There is a surprising amount of capability that will depart from these premises.  Boeing in its past wisdom had provided opportunities for higher levels of education to be obtained by employees.  Of the two thousand, two hundred employees that were on site when the closure announcement was made January 4, 2012, many, many of them had College time.  It was not unusual for employees to take advantage of Boeing’s offer to continue with more academia for further enlightenment.  I know I did like so many earn an extra Bachelor Degree or go on to obtain a Masters with a number of people even graduating with a Doctorate in their chosen field.  Surveying those two thousand plus employees and considering an average of five years of higher education achieved by each one, there is over 10,000 years of academic achievement leaving.  Additionally, most everyone at this site when the announcement came last year had over 20 years of seniority with a common number in the 30’s and 40’s.   Averaging 2,000 employees at 20 years each demonstrates a knowledge base well over 40,000 years departing this site.  This synergy will never be repeated again.  It takes a lot of time and struggle to develop an employee base where working together was the larger norm than not.  Intelligently working together that is.  

     As I wave good bye, I like so many others wonder who could have made a decision like this to close such a fine facility that had the highest quality of aviation workmanship in all arenas and a history to prove it.  How could a decision like this be made without looking at the people who were here and the successes they had accomplished?  I guess someone missed the boat on that one.  Someone must have decided that we had “too much of a good thing” going on for far too long.  A synergy like this is not transferable in large degree and the proof in the pudding is yet to be seen regarding the repercussions of closing down our site.  Unfortunately, there is no success here to be gained from this closure.
  
Good fortune to all of you that are moving on.  The world is ready for you!

Over the years, Boeing, like most companies, has started to cater to the millennial over the seasoned employee.  It's as if the company is betting their entire future on what these new employees may be able to provide vs. what the current employees do provide.  If you're in your 40's, or above, your future is pretty much set in stone.  Reaching a technical level 4 is probably it.  Level 5's and above, as well as older level 4's, are always at risk of being tossed out due to the salary they're being paid.  The company is trying to migrate to an average technical level somewhere between 3 and 4.  Once you move from reviews that 'exceed expectations' to ones that simply say 'met expectations', you know your time is limited.

If you are willing to move into management your future is wide open.  Staying in a technical track will never keep pace w/ the management track when it comes to salary and bonuses. Bonuses on the management side are nearly double that of the technical side.  Side note, if you are female and/or a member of some sort of defined minority class then more possibilities exist now and into the future. Problem the company has now IMO is people who probably shouldn't even work there are taking the management track and it's starting to show in the decisions being made.  Managers are rarely if ever put on the street for poor decisions, but, simply moved to other areas 'more fitting'.  

Recent contract wins for military items have increased the number of technical opportunities present, but, you will work long hours with little to no overtime pay under a schedule that is not achievable. Your bonus will not make up for these long hours.  Accolades will go to the management and exec levels at the expense of the technical levels. You will have to dial back your expectations of reality as well.  Think you can get a project done in a year?  No, better plan on three.  And, it will be way over budget.  All of these things will be out of your control. 

For the most part your work will be judged on how well it looks in PowerPoint opposed to what actual contribution it has to the performance of the product or the bottom line.  I've seen a number of technically bad ideas actually make it into a product.  Some of the most basic of engineering concepts are lost on a number of both new, and, seasoned employees.  Questioning these ideas will only bring shame upon yourself unless you're willing to really stand up to them and call them out for the junk science they are.  Most are not willing to do this and simply keep quiet, or, leave the company.  

Work output expectations from new hires is typically low.  In fact most expectations are low when it comes to new hires.  Show up when you want, leave when you want, Don't want to work on something?  That's OK, here's something more interesting.  I'll have the seasoned engineers do your real work for you.  

An 80% solution to a problem is OK because the company will just propose to fix the other 20% in the next contract proposal.  Then do only 80% of that requirement.  On and on and on....Now you know why a hammer costs the government a million dollars.  Why fix a problem when there is more money to be made in prolonging the problem.

2019 will be the first year where the company has a tiered plan when it comes to medical cost deductions.  The less pay you make, the less you pay in medical premiums.  Some will pay nothing this year.  They say the executive level will pay the most but I seriously doubt that as there are typically employment contracts which dictate nearly all exec perks.  For a number of years we had a no-cost HSA but the deductibles kept creeping up.  This year we still have the high deductibles, but, there are monthly deductions now.

If you want to have children, 2019 and beyond is the year to do so.  Three months of paid time off along w/ 12 weeks of FMLA as well as short and long term disability pay if you want to go that route.  I would expect you could have a child, take 3 months off, work on making another and then in 9 months, take off again.  Some people could do this a number of times and do little actual work all while getting full pay and bonuses.  If you're spouse works there then these benefits apply to them as well.   

If you make it 10 years at Boeing you will find it very difficult to move away from the company and expect to make something close to what you were making.  They have really skewed the salaries in the area.  The pay is above average for the area, especially considering the tasks that some do for the pay they make.  There is a lot of dead weight around the company that for some reason, lives on. When they come through with the ax, it's not the fat they're trimming, it's just salaries.

Been there are long time and this is what I have to offer. These thoughts are purely my personal opinion.
1. If you want to move up more than one level,  best to move to another site
2. Tremendous pressure on assembly operators to continually reduce cost and improve quality
3. Tremendous pressure to find suppliers that provide parts at lowest cost which competes with quality and on-time parts. Boeing will choose a low cost bidder over a more expensive but consistent supplier and that impacts the line and the operators have to sacrifice to build products on time - many Saturdays and long work days but that's how operators earn more money
4. Health care is one of the best you can obtain
5. Professional employees don't find advancement without being a production leader and paying their dues, for the most part....it's not a golden rule but commonly expected.
6. Boeing likes to rotate 1st line leaders among different assignments for experience and to test leader's ability to adjust
7. Minorities and protected groups do advance albeit not always the best candidate or most qualified gets the position and that hurts the organization but Boeing must consider it worth the sacrifice to ensure these targeted groups are represented in the organization. Not true for every situation but I've seen less qualified persons accepted over other competitors.
8. HR questions are addressed via a common call center where you can get specific information from a qualified and knowledgeable person. This may not always be true.
9. Most everyone cares about what they are doing knowing that lives depend on their work. Employees make their work count.
10. Boeing wants to be the best among peers in the industry but they need to pay the shop floor operators better for the level of expectation they place on them. I'm not sure if Boeing ever will improve shop floor wages knowing that they are in a highly  competitive industry. The way Boeing overcomes this is by offering better than most for benefits however, in my opinion, it's not enough for the shop floor person.
11. I've had many good leaders (aka, managers) over the course of my career. No one is perfect. However, the poor managers don't get weeded out, they just don't advance. That leaves those working for a poor manager having to live with the problems and there is little done to rectify it until the manager is moved to a different position, then it's someone else's problem. But, managers that are unethical usually get terminated.
12. In a right to work state, there is little accommodation for protecting employees from a poor manager. You can't beat Goliath
13. It's a tremendous company with opportunities for growth if you are willing to relocate, otherwise, you get what there is and don't expect more!
14. First line leaders often come from within the facility expect if there is a protected group competing for the position and then all bets are off. 
15. Advancement beyond 1st level management is usually from another site that's why I said, if you want to advance, plan on moving.
16. Boeing has superior processes and technologies and opportunities for STEM candidates (men and women) to be a part in their career. I've seen some pretty fabulous engineering over my career emerging from every site within Boeing. Very talented people.
17. People come and go because the work is hard but those that carry the company and know how to run the business are those that stay.

A typical day at work for me has changed many times over the years. 
I started in an environment which was over bearing due to the micro-management which interfered with work progress. I was able to gradually improve my work conditions by continually improving. In each job position the overall work environment got better. Changing times and changing American cultural values has degraded the work experience. When I started every job and quality was highly important no matter how removed from the airplane your work was. today in a millenial environment, everything is " close enough" where less than the best a.k.a. mediocracy is the standard. There are still many fine professionals who strive for the highest quality, but it is not the norm and of those who strive for the highest quality in their work, half will fold in a heartbeat when any resistance to their personal efforts for quality work is challenged.
   A typical day years ago in the hourly tedious repetitive medial Job, their was laughing light hearted joking, and general fun at work. That has since been replaced with a flexible, higher responsibility, non- repetitive job with no fun, no joking or even meaningful conversations for fear of being politically incorrect or offending someone's sensibilities. If I could turn back time I would take the medial job again with fun any day of the week.
 Over these years I have received many opportunities to grow personally and professionally. In some cases I have been encouraged to continually seek education and to be a life long learner, but after years of continuing education, the goal post have kept moving out just as you get close to reaching the qualification level. Achievements have became more and more difficult to receive and experienced and understanding professionals have been traded for inexperienced youth with master's degrees who could care less about the aircraft and only want to move on to the next tech job.
 In each environment I have worked their has been kliques and you are either apart of the Klik or you are on the outside looking in. I have somehow managed to gradually improve my job positions despite this and continued to grow, but the culture today is even greater "who you know" more than what you know.
 Having said all of this in a very mixed bag way. The company has been good for me. If you can weather the storms with a never give up attitude you could have a long career as I have had or use Boeing to boost you to your next endeavor. The company has provided long steady work a variety of options to work within the company and provided the means for me to literally raise my family.
  I started my Boeing career just a few months before my first child was born. I now have three adult children, my oldest being 31, all of whos growing years in large part were financed by Boeing.
  All in all Boeing is what you make of it, you either accept and weather the hardships or punch out. The pay sucked when I started, but I was not content to let it stay that way. I have changed jobs 15 times within the company and am being paid nicely now. I have talked to many friends over the years who have had 15 jobs with 15 different companies, most who make less with equivalent jobs.So no matter what you choose to do their will be change there will be struggles. The real question would be do you want to experience life inside or outside of Boeing

I really enjoyed my job with Boeing. In 7 years, I worked in two locations- Everett and Portland. Everett was amazing. Lots of overtime, learning opportunities, a very good work-culture, opportunities for advancement, and great management. I was being shaped to enter into a leadership role in the near future when something happened with my family and I needed to move to the Portland area. QTTP told me it would be easier to quit and apply at Boeing Portland than to try to transfer. So, I did. lost all of my progression steps. But, I was hired and started off at my previous rate of pay. Things started off great in Portland- was getting recognized for quality work, was usually ahead or on-time with my work, and again, being talked to for leadership roles. I had cross trained in many sections in my area and was pretty efficient in running any work station I was trained in. Many times, to keep busy, I would work in other areas. I made a mistake and had a couple of drinks before work. I was recently separated and saw some friends for dinner before my graveyard shift. I felt fine so I went in to work. (I also was out of leave for the year and didnt want to be written up.) some swing coworkers were tying in with me to let me know what work needed to be done, smelled the IPA on my breath from almost an hour prior, and reported me. BA .07% I was sent home and suspended. I made a mistake, I was also young but not an alcoholic. I complied with all terms to return to work. I complied with all terms once I returned to work. After that incident, however, it didnt matter how great of an employee I was- complaints from other workers that were threatened by me taking work from their area because I worked my own area out of work, were treated as if the manager saw me do it with their own eyes. The female manager that I reported to had already spread unfounded rumors of me to other managers about non-work related things, and now that I was reporting to her, she seemed to try to get me into more trouble. I would be in trouble for others coming to my area to chat, for others reporting that I used my phone too frequently or if I had left my area for 5 minutes. it was becoming very toxic. When she moved to another shift, things seemed to be better, but then the substance abuse recovery program I was on (remember .07% from earlier) was intensified because the counselor I was assigned to was letting me off "too easily" with random monthly UAs only. I was terminated because the new counselor from EAP wanted me to call in weekly to check in, after I hadn't needed to do so for 8 months of my program. I called in on a sunday, which I didnt know counted as the previous week, and the counselor reported me as non compliant to my program. I was terminated a week later, the union did not help me, and I am no longer eligible for rehire at any time. I understand I made a mistake, but it was the only mistake in 7 years of employment, and it was very minor compared to others that were able to retain their jobs. I just wish that my 7 years of  work would have counted for something.

A typical day at Boeing, in the various software positions that I occupied, might start off with trouble-shooting a program bug. This is always fun work, because it involves puzzle-solving. I might be interrupted to answer a customer call, from someone who needed technical assistance. I would research their problem, talk with whatever experts in other departments needed to be contacted and consulted with, and call the customer back and explain to them what we knew about the problem. We might have a solution immediately, we might work with them on the phone to develop one, we might have to wait until another expert got back to me. I would typically return to the task that I had been working on, prior to customer support, and do more puzzle-solving. I might then turn my attention to an assignment to work with in-house customers to retrieve requirements for an assigned project, such as development of a report for their use, or to write software code that would allow the customers to obtain information about airplane manufacture, in any of its various stages, from an online system or from a written report.

My management typically did not get involved in the technical details of my job. They distributed company policies and information, answered questions about salaries and work schedules and took care of any employee problems. They left employees to interact with their peers or experts within the company to resolve day-to-day technical issues.

My co-workers were 90% wonderful, and fun!

I learned a lot about software, debugging tools, databases, information retrieval, how to describe workflows to employees who needed to know how our systems worked, and how to solve customer problems when customers called with technical difficulties.

Let's see, the hardest part of my job? Meetings! In my opinion, there are always too many staff meetings. At such meetings, international policies about travel for the company are gone over, or policies about maintaining code, most of the information was already known to us, or didn't pertain to people in our positions. But, if staff meetings were called, we all went. If it was required, we did it.

The most enjoyable part of the job was giving information to people who did not understand our system and needed to know how it worked. I would draw pictures on whiteboards for them, give them written summaries, describe verbally how our systems worked, and answer questions. Interacting with people who need information is always fun, and I had fun at this!

It depends where you are in your career and what you do. Boeing is a very large multidisciplinary, multi-market, international technology company that is constantly reinventing and resizing itself in a complex, changing world. My experience in helicopter production engineering support exposed me to one tiny facet of the company.  This involved hands on experience with  the people and processes required to produce military helicopters.

Depending on my position, my work involved analysis and resolution of production problems with aircraft structures and drive systems. Some of my positions relied more on people skills than technical skills.  Boeing supported me with a large informational infrastructure. 

Boeing, like any large company, requires continual online training in areas such as ethics, customer relations, information security and company policies.
    
Having come to Boeing late in my career, the knowledge I brought with me was the backbone of the technical aspects of my function.  At Boeing, however, I learned how to function within a much larger collaborative environment than I'd previously known. I increased some of my knowledge of materials and processes and was able to get a better appreciation for fracture mechanics.  One thing I greatly benefited from was Dale Carnegie training that was offered to employees.

Although management relies ultimately on people and personalities, the tools and framework used by Boeing went a long way to ensure fairness, objectivity, consistency and openness.  No company is perfect.

Workplace culture varied from location to location.  Although there is an emphasis on achieving a unified culture; from Texas to Arizona to Pennsylvania, there were differences in styles, values and mentalities. Workplace culture varied depending on what your job was and who your peers were. For the most part, people were friendly and tried to get along.  But there was notable loyalty to people who had been with Boeing for a long time.

The hardest part of any job that is close to the delivery point of the product is dealing with surprises and contingencies that threaten the delivery schedule.  A problem could arise as you were getting ready to walk out the door and you'd find yourself there at midnight.  Another hard part is when you can see that the need for what you do is diminishing.  This happens as contracts come to a close, or as the company begins to outsource functions similar to yours.  This is to be expected in any large aerospace company.

There were many things to enjoy about positions I held in Boeing.  I always found interesting people to associate with. I enjoyed being part of multidisciplinary teams. I always enjoyed solving problems, learning new things and making life easier for my coworkers.

-Completely stagnant pay offered for area, 50% of your check will be rent or mortgage. 
-Unfairly negotiated pay after talking to fellow coworkers and their experience and education levels. 
-The union does a great job protecting terrible employees and taking your $120 (before taxes) with minimal representation...thanks for the 1cent raise, layoff protection, and loss of pension.... 
-Hires "Quality Assurance" (which isn't even QA) only for their stamp off on shoddy rework, ticketing, and to move aircraft out at a certain rate and not for "Total Quality." 
-Recruitment half-truths, false job descriptions, and a very deceptive hiring practice. 
-Toxic, non existent work culture with quickly declining morale. 
-Non existent quality culture, completely devoid of any managerial direction, continuous improvement, or care from fellow employees. -Completely unqualified "mechanics and inspectors" doing MRO level inspection, repairs, and rework. 
-Layoffs after just hiring people and moving them across country (not me unfortunately). 
-Zero help transferring into the "real QA" position I was sold before signing the offer, zero care, zero employee development, and zero feedback from any type of talent or hiring practice. You are just a number. They can't even manage a rejection email for an internal employee!! 
-Decaying facilities, IT infrastructure, tools, equipment, talent, and innovative design in the BCA group.
 -No food at work anymore, or anywhere in the bad neighborhood that SDC is located. I wouldn't even want to come here if I was a customer with the neighborhood this place is located in! 
-Lack of competitiveness, nothing in the game anymore for narrowbody commercial aircraft.
 -Only listen to what a few select customers want, and ignore what is needed globally in terms of technology and airframe requirements. -The worst career decision I've ever made due to very deceptive hiring practices, inability to transfer to fit my skills (due to being lied too), and zero employee development. The career I gave up for this place based on the hype of Boeing and wanting to make a difference in Quality or leadership makes me want to choke on a plastic bag. 

*DON'T drink the kool-aid and make the same mistake. Go work for a cargo or commercial airline if you have actual skills, education, and licenses.


Advice to Management

Clean house completely from Directors on up, and install people that actually want to change the direction of this floundering company, make a difference, bring the glory of the name (and brand) back, and get rid of the Chicago HQ and bring it back to ground zero.

Here's an overview of what it's like to work at Boeing Defense, Space & Security:

*Typical Day at Work:*

A typical day at Boeing Defense, Space & Security can vary depending on the role, but employees often work on complex projects, collaborate with cross-functional teams and leverage advanced technologies. For instance, a systems engineer might spend their day designing innovative solutions for aerospace and defense systems, while a manufacturing engineer might work on producing cutting-edge aircraft.

*What You Learn:*

Boeing offers numerous opportunities for growth and development, including¹ ²:
- *Technical Skills*: Employees can develop expertise in areas like cybersecurity, electronic and electrical engineering, and product security.
- *Leadership Skills*: Boeing provides leadership training programs to help employees advance in their careers.
- *Industry Knowledge*: Employees gain insights into the aerospace and defense industries, including the latest technologies and trends.

*Management:*

Boeing's management style is often described as collaborative and supportive. Employees work closely with their departmental leaders to resolve issues and achieve common goals. The company prioritizes employee engagement, with leaders who foster a culture of trust, respect and inclusivity.³

*Workplace Culture:*

Boeing's workplace culture is built on values like:
- *Integrity*: Employees are expected to uphold high standards of ethics and integrity.
- *Quality*: The company prioritizes delivering high-quality products and services.
- *Diversity and Inclusion*: Boeing values diverse perspectives and promotes an inclusive work environment.
- *Safety*: Employee safety is paramount, with a focus on maintaining a safe working environment.

*Hardest Part of the Job:*

Some employees might find the following challenging⁴:
- *Complex Projects*: Working on complex projects with tight deadlines can be demanding.
- *Security Clearances*: Some roles require security clearances, which can be a challenge for some employees.

*Most Enjoyable Part of the Job:*

Many employees enjoy:
- *Innovative Work*: Working on cutting-edge projects and technologies can be exciting and rewarding.
- *Collaboration*: Collaborating with talented colleagues and contributing to team goals can be fulfilling.
- *Impact*: Knowing that their work contributes to the aerospace and defense industries can give employees a sense of purpose and fulfillment.

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