Boeing Commercial Airplanes Employee Job Reviews in the United States

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

"Don't go to work for this company, you are a number only."

"A good place to learn for any young engineer."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Team work, good working conditions and good benefits and management."

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

"Volunteer."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Incorporate Agile manufacturing."

"Nice place to work with a lot of technical expertise."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Allowed responsibility."

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

"Their bill of materials system."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Being an employee of one of the largest aerospace companies was useful in managing supplier relations."

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

"Job security."

"The inconvenient truth."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Work ethic, knowledgeable work force."

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

"Enjoy the ride while it lasts and always strive to do your best."

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

"Job security."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide better job security to workers."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Nothing."

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

"Be ex-military."

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

"Everything."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Learn how to manage."

"Boeing is ok, but managers need to know the jobs of the people below them. Most managers there came from different backgrounds."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Starting a project and be able to watch it all the way to the end."

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

"The lay offs."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They need to sit with the people they manage and learn the jobs from the inside out. There is no way to learn everything, but the more they know the more respect they get."

"Don't work IT for Boeing. Job unstable. Consulting companies like CSC are cheap and terrible to work for."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Being a part of Boeing and its history."

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

"If you are working IT, don't... until/unless they insource their IT. Working for companies like IBM global services, and especially CSC is not only demeaning and frustrating, it's usually short term, and a lot of hurry up and correct management mistakes. Management for these companies changes every few months, and each one reduces the work force but cuts OT, and changes all the procedures around."

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

"No way to work in IT unless you work for a horrible outsourcing company. Each contract worse than the last. AVOID."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"If they had an idea of how horrifying IT was run, then they wouldn't need to read this. It's a shame, in a lot of other areas Boeing is a shining jewel, but in IT... I have no idea how they get what they do done. Outsourcing IT for a major company, especially one like Boeing that does our defense work, rockets, and retains a lot of IP, to companies that get the cheapest labor possible in countries like India and Brazil is scary at best. I saw slippages of classified docs all the time."

"My interests and Boeing's work did not provide room for my growth."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"Boeing has some terrific, smart people -- especially the young engineers entering the company. They also provide EXCELLENT continuing education benefits. The company has well-documented processes, which help to establish a common baseline for conducting business."

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

"Be honest -- never tailor an answer to say what you think the employer wants to hear, because if it is not the correct environment for you, it will come out eventually. Better not to get fired or laid off, because you wanted the job, despite the mismatch!"

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

"Boeing has not figured out how to conduct business to generate a profit outside of cost + contracts, and this is a huge problem in such a process-oriented company. The business strategy team needs to draw input from a better cross-section of employees, to integrate the company's TEAM into the overhaul."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"1) Engage employees -- solicit input (in a focused manner) and LISTEN effectively.2) Provide feedback to employees regarding their input -- basically 1 & 2 say create some employee forums, each of which has a topic and invites cross-discipline, cross-level participants.3) Take a risk -- stop trying to revise a business model that has not worked for years, and start from scratch. Take the lessons learned and use them to establish a foundation, which the employee forums can start to challenge, enhance and prototype.4) Encourage management to use the employee incentives already available, and ensure adequate funding exists to keep good employees motivated and feeling valued."

"This was a short term contract, and a huge success."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"The team documented their requirements, and followed through exceedingly well."

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

"Be honest and forthcoming."

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

"The commute was a bit of a challenge."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep it up - great work!"

"Great benefits."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"The benifits."

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

"Target your resume for what is in the job description."

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

"Redundant and tedious work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be more creative."

"Good place to work."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"The money and the people that I worked with."

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

"Well my job in Wichita got sold to another company, Spirit Aero Systems. Got laid off from there after 10 years. and was a third generation Boeing worker. Then 6 months later I got hired for a contract job to work at Boeing and Spirit, and Boeing and Spirit would not let me on the campus. They blacked listed me so I can't get hired there with them or any other company that works on their campus. And I have two family members that work in their HR office and for the first year and a half there was a list going around on the people they can't hire. And the Boeing company lied about how you were going to be hired by the new place, they said that they hired a company to do the picking of the people that was going to Spirit, it was the managers that told their boss to hire and not to hire. Plus I was a big time union steward in that plant and they let go in my area 28 union stewards cause they want to break the union out there and I was a good union steward . I have over 16 years aircraft painting expertise and can't find a job anywhere. And the managers could not lead a horse to water, the managers are like blind leading the blind."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"All managers from the CEO to the shop managers should all be locked up for fraud and be fired and can not work for a company ever again that is funded by my taxes or any one else taxes. Any company that steals taxes and then laid off the work should be closed down."

"Surprisingly, Boeing - a dream job letdown."

What do you like about working at Boeing Commercial Airplanes?

"When times are good, work environment is high energy, pro company. If it wasn't for the compensation benefits that make up for lagging salaries, employees would not enjoy working there. What makes working at Boeing great is, if you have a passion for planes then you get to surround yourself with others with the similar passion. You share and drive off of each other that joy which makes you enjoy coming in every day."

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

"They can only ask you 5 questions at the interview. They can not ask anything else or away from the questions. From that be confident, eye contact, use their name at times would be good to show you paid attention, and in the responses put forward your past experiences that are most relevant to the job at hand and how it will make you shine. Lastly, let them know you have a 'passion' for Boeing and the industry and that you want to work there. Don't assume that they know you want to work there, but tell them that. When done, send those thank you cards."

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

"The salary is at the low end of industry average. Yearly increases are very small - cost of living increase level if that. Increases in levels are left up to discretion of the manager too much even after utilizing a formulated evaluation. Discrimination is a continuing issue at Boeing and observed myself. Lastly, Boeing indicates they want a forum of free ideas and promote new products. When you present new such ideas they are frowned upon or shown little interest, though the information is taken or written down. If it's a new product, all information is too, taken down and little interest is then again shown. It is not month or months later that you will hear or see your idea becoming reality or being presented by someone higher up as their idea and nowhere are you in the picture."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Reduce the amount of ability to allow or disallow changes in levels away from the recommendation of the formulated evaluations. Prevent double punishments on evaluations - employees were cited say for parking infractions and received a written warning. Then at the end of the year it counted against them in Integrity section too. Double punishments should not occur. Also, when there is a problem with a supervisor employees have an HR rep they can go to. The HR rep should be required to be confidential in what is said between worker and herself and be creative in proposing workable situations. Employees in cases have issues and HR reps hear the issue and right around and go to the manager and tell them what they hear. No resolution but instilled anger in manager and tension in the workplace. And stop having meetings to talk about what you're going to talk about at a meeting you're going to have in the near future."