Boeing Commercial Airplanes Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"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."

"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."

"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."

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."

"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?

"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."

"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?

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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."

"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."

"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."

"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."