Working at Boeing in Everett, WA: 95 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Everett, WA Area

"I've worked for Boeing Commercial Airplanes for 12 years. The company offers great benefits and has challenging work. Employees can grow, though you need to watch out and not be complacent else you will find yourself pigeon holed into a role, which is very easy to do at Boeing. The Company is big though and there are a number of areas you can move to should you look for a change."

"I worked in the galleys group and loved every minute of it. The people are great and the management was top notch."

"Stressful."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"Exposure to the technology and the latest LEAN manufacturing processes."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Study the job description and relate specific experiences to job requirements."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"A great deal of silo thinking with little collaboration and the red tape!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Cross train your team members to promote collaboration and prevent group think."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"Seeing how planes are built and designed and where they're trying to go with everything."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be prepared to learn and relearn everything in very different ways."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"There's a lot of close minded people here, the old guard doesn't want to leave or pass on knowledge."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Try and restructure the company to truly be one unit rather than seem like a lot of smaller ones."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"It gave me a job when I needed one. Watching planes being built is kind of exciting for about a year."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't make it complicated. Use SMART, have reasonable stories about situations you have resolved."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"The job skills listed on the job announcements are totally fluffed. The job I applied for and the job I have are not the same. 40% of the managers in my area have less than 1 year of experience and don't know how to manage people. My manager has a favorite (1) that gets all the growth experiences. Our team is very very very bureaucratic, my opinions, comments, ideas, etc are not wanted unless they are telling him something positive about him."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would either train the managers in management or hire ones that know something about managing people."

"Great, outstanding, awesome work."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"Boeing is a great place to work, that is why I stayed there for 22 years."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Just get in and keep in, it is worth the effort."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"Sometimes they did miss on the pay hits but everything else was great."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep up the good work and I am sorry that you let me go."

"A fantastic opportunity to learn about aerospace products."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"The Boeing Company provides an ample of opportunity to grow throughout the enterprise at various locations."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Describe your past and current experiences that are relevant to the job you are applying for, and ask the right questions to learn more about the company, job, organization, and management."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"The company is too large in some cases where employees are often lost trying to build their career roadmap."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Minimize micromanagement and grow your employees to their full potential or interest."

"Have high standards when it comes to quality."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"They pay me well for what I do and the people are nice to work with."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If possible, find others that already work there in similar positions that you are applying for, and get their take on what it's like to work there."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"Lots of overtime, weekends, holidays, after regular shift hours, on call. They preach a work/life balance, then don't practice it."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Enforce what you preach. Don't just make up policies and expect them to be followed."

"I perform tests on the 747 ensuring it is safe for flight."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"I liked the people and management of the company (Boeing)."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself and research the job you are applying for."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"Some of the work hours are hard on the family."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I think management takes the terms finds a way too far sometimes."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"Good place."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"Good pay while you are there."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you are a software developer, DON'T interview at Boeing. Go somewhere else."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"Work is cyclic. By that I mean they hire a lot of people to design an aircraft, then lay them all off when the design is complete. Cycle occurs approximately every 10 to 15 years."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Try to even out work load so work is not so cyclic. Also, you need a SW development department. You are losing an understanding of what it means to write avionic SW since you now only rely on other companies to do that work. Knowing how to read RTCA-DO-178B DOES NOT Make you experts or knowledgeable in Software Development."