Working at Boeing in Huntington Beach, CA: 54 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Huntington Beach, CA Area

"excellent company to work for."

"Boeing is a large company that has a vast array of jobs and projects. The people are wonderful, and the workplace is vigorous and rewarding."

"I've worked at this company for a year. It has a high value on safety and integrity."

"Boeing is an excellent company to work for. They take excellent care of their employees. Because they are an international company there are opportunities to work throughout the world."

"A good place to work. Good pay. My job was eliminated and I was part of a mass layoff. Of course aerospace is like that. You can't count on job stability. The benefits have been reduced. It depends on your specialty as to how you fare there. A diverse culture."

"Boeing is an awesome company to work at. It supports its engineers with many opportunities. Boeing in Southern California (Huntington Beach, Long Beach, Seal Beach, El Segundo) however has been shrinking due to slow defense spending. I don't recommend working Boeing Southern CA."

"I've worked for Boeing since 2000. Boeing is a great company with excellent benefit package and opportunity for growth. Although with 14 years of service my contribution has been significant, but I can strongly say the opportunities provided to me at Boeing in past 14 years made me much more knowledgeable in my field."

"I have worked for the Boeing Company for 9 years and recommend it."

"Boeing is a good company to work for."

"I've worked for Boeing since 1998. My primary duties have been involved with large database systems and providing easy access to the data. I have worked on both Windows and Unix platforms using both Windows technologies and Unix technologies. The company is very large and unfortunately is not oriented for IT types since its primary products are airplanes. Consequently, they purchase and integrate software rather than develop it."

"I have worked for Boeing for 20 years in Information Technology. I have had may great opportunities and transitioned myself from a mainframe Nomad2 programmer to Client Server to Web Developer and Cots Software Integrator. The company now has decided to move IT functions outside of California otherwise I would stay."

"Frustrating. Politics over engineering."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"It gives me a chance to work on air vehicles."

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

"Throw in business things like 'lean 10X', even if you are applying for an engineering spot."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"Far more politics than engineering. Too many decisions are dictated from above, rather than asking the engineers to develop good solutions."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Step back, and let your people do their work. Don't rely on work-arounds, give people the time/tools to make proper fixes."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"Dependable work place, provided a lot of new technology to work with. Ability to implement new ideas if they proved to add value in some way."

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

"Don't waste your time, if you get hired it's only temporary."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"You have no job security, they fire people left and right, good and bad, makes no difference. They fire Alan Mullay, he was not good enough for CEO. So he goes to Ford and is rated Top CEO of the year by Forbes."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"At Boeing, whenever they run into cost problems they fire people in droves until the numbers look good. That is a CEO decision, not a managerial one. I had a good manager (who was also let go), unfortunately the leadership at Boeing is not very good and has a high turnover rate, they have had 4 CEO's in the last 10 years."

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"I was hoping to work on the GPS III effort, it never came."

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

"Not too much. I pretty much just present what I can do for the effort."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"A group of former members of Loral Aeronutronics made the transition back in 1998 and controlled the comm. engr effort they had no background in causing all kinds of issues."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get people that have worked in the technical areas they are managing."