Boeing Commercial Airplanes Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Boeing mgmt wants to maximize exportation of engineering work!"

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Facilities were fairly decent. Was located in Seattle."

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

"if you're applying for a contract position, you may not interview at all. However, for the direct position, read the book, Competency-Based Interviews, as that is the style that Boeing uses."

What don't you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Management was very incompetent, and often they were placed there purely for political reasons, not because they were the most competent."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Ensure that technical competency is a part of the hiring decisions, not politics. learn how to estimate workload and staff accordingly to avoid a continuous cycle of ramping up and down in workload."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Aviation and aerospace related."

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

"Good place to work if you anticipate layoffs."

What don't you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Layoff cycle."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Good job!"

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Immediate coworkers were friendly."

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

"Be prepared to work with older technologies such as COBOL, C, Mainframes, and text-based columnar files."

What don't you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Company lacked a cohesive data management and product deployment strategy. Attempted to seamlessly integrate too many disparate systems without a comprehensive strategy. Direct software manager wasn't located onsite and didn't possess a software background."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Create an architecture group to define and thoroughly document all current business models and processes plus defining any proposed changes and consequences. Rely on architecture to drive implementation instead of different groups/roles purchasing disparate subsystems."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Relaxed."

What don't you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Too relaxed."

"Great company to work for except for job security."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Great place to work."

What don't you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Most managers have outdated management ideals."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Change ideals to meet job demands of this century."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"The ability to work in cutting edge technology."

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

"Be true to who you are."

What don't you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Glass ceilings."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Value people who know more and are valued less."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"The chance to deploy new technologies, factory automation was very interesting."

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

"Must be prepared to work for a very large company."

What don't you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"The union was sometimes a bit of a problem."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Continue to let the subject matter experts do their job."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Close to home, the people were amazing, I had creative freedom, no one stood over my shoulders, the work I did was appreciated and respected, I saved a man's life and saved the company money."

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

"Watch jealous people and do the best you can. Learn as much as you can, and watch out for some cultures who are from India who bring their negative thoughts and think people are in a class system. Report anyone who works you without paying the proper lawful overtime. And finally enjoy your time there because there are some smart, great, wonderful and caring people at Boeing. I still interact with a lot of them."

What don't you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"My former Sr. Manager, he worked me overtime without pay. When my father was dying and Sr. Manager knew I would go to the hospital each day to feed my father, the Sr. Manager changed my hours so that it would be hard for me to get there in time."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To adhere to the laws and treat people lawfully and not keep hourly employees past time talking about nothing because they are lonely or didn't like going home to a not so nice wife. Pay for overtime (anything past 8 hrs should be paid accordingly). And when someone saves another person's life don't drag them into a meeting and reprimand them because, others thought it was a totally unselfish thing to do!"

"Boeing IDS has grim future."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Interesting projects."

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

"Expect mandatory overtime (not always paid). Contracts are always bid low, requiring lots of extra effort to complete."

What don't you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Unreasonable deadlines, poorly-managed projects."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Need to relearn how to execute contracts, and how to get new contracts. Need to get better at retaining and retraining employees. Stop outsourcing so much of the work."

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What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Working with aircraft."

"Great folks and place to work."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"The people, the work."

What don't you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Long commute."

"Want a challenge, try to get a job with Boeing."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Never seems to be a lack of things to do."

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

"If you have expectations, you will be disappointed. To Boeing, you are a warm body and a college degree. Your past is only of interest in that you were trainable, not that you have any experience they want to exploit."

What don't you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"One of the company's mottoes is, We do the hard things, because they make things harder than they should be, not because they are hard to do."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Practice what you preach. I've found 1st level through 3 level managers to be hypocrites."

"Good."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Great company."

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

"Be your best."

What don't you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Technical challenges."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep good work."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"The project was interesting. I enjoyed working with my colleagues."

What don't you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"The industry is at the mercy of whoever is elected president and who is elected in Congress."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The defense industry is very cyclic."

"Boeing Space & Defense gave me excellent regulatory experience, particularly in environmental auditing."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Variety of work."

What don't you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Difficult to advance within the environmental group without going into management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Develop a technical career pathway aside from the management pathway."