Working at Boeing in Bellevue, WA: 27 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Bellevue, WA Area

"Boeing lost big, booting me."

"Ok place to work for."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"Big computing systems."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"Upper Management does not look at big picture comparing present and future possibilities."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Look outside the money box."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"People."

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

"Don't."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"Management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep good people."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"Broad knowledge about enterprise computing."

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

"Sharp."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"Slow and many layers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Efficiency."

"Ask a lot of questions to define roles and responsibilities before you sign on."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"A lot of great opportunities to expand into other areas."

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

"Be very cautious about displaying any individual or original thought. They ask for it, but they do not really want it."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"Extremely political, many of the decisions were made on not what is right, but what is right for me. The Me Me philosophy is very apparent at middle to higher manager positions."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"There is a great deal of the old buddy system working and it has spread deep into the sex oriented areas. There are a great deal of organizations within SSG that are encouraging the promotionability of female employees regardless of qualifications."

"I was a purchased services contractor, their lowest form of corporate life."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"Good people, very challenging environment, wide range of technology."

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

"If you can get a blue badge, aka be a direct and permanent hire to Boeing themselves, you are golden. You will have great pay, good people around you, and you probably won't mind all the stupid corporate stuff because you can just remind yourself about the retirement plan and smile. If you aren't blue badge, be prepared to be ill-used, ill-treated, and eventually replaced by some other, cheaper contractor for no real reason other than Boeing lost another 787 order or ran into another technical hurdle and now needs to save some money."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"Extremely large companies all have their own corporate disconnect from real life and logic, but Boeing takes the cake, it was very very frustrating to see them screw things up left and right trying to apply LEAN to places where it just didn't work, and generally doing stupid stuff."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management's job is not *just* to manage the people, you need to understand your people's job, too... spend time doing their job, and not just an hour a month either, really get to know their processes, and be open to them giving you feedback on the roadblocks that Corporate has put in their way... then good luck finding a way to DO anything about them, but hey, knowing is half the battle, right?"

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"Stability."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"Mandatory headcount reductions during bad economic times."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Allow more flexibility in retaining employees when bad economic times occur."

"Not be recognized or paid for abilities or utilizing all of my skills."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"Great learning opportunity."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"Not being paid what you're worth."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Fire the lame ones and pay the good ones more."

"A rewarding experience."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"The opportunity to work with state of the art technology."

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

"Be enthusiastic."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"Ability to work with new technologies."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Maintain a stable workforce."