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3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(18,220 total reviews)
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75% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Boeing has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 18,220 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Boeing employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace and defence industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
Sep 9, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good resources to learn and great future to the company as well to employees.

Cons

I need to write a whitepaper on Boeing India HR (Bangalore), Example 1: They never; ever reply to any email, even their mangers and their managers. I don't know it seems like we need to contact CEO of Boeing. Example 2: every one gets emails about pls do refer, and after referring they make sure you don't get any referral bonus. (they might be having some benefits it seems) Example 3: They never support the hiring process for a selected candidate, he has to follow up daily and even though they don't respond. (they always looks super busy, but out come will nil) one of my friend selected and because of HR delayed processing he rejected his offer though its a good package. (always package doesn't hold the people, they need some respect too)

2.0
Apr 5, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

This review is specific to IT&DA in Boeing Bangalore India and should not be taken as of entire Boeing or any other business unit. I will start with pros : 1. Excellent policies about vacations, holiday etc. , in general better than most of the other companies . (may be due to global policies) 2. Work life balance in most of the projects . In general global policies are good and promotes lot of employee friendly things.

Cons

However good story ends above: 1. "Highly Nontechnical" managers with non-existent people skills ( most of them except may a few good ones ) not adding any value to the company . 2. Middle level managers are ineffective (as being non technical with no domain knowledge ) most of the time busy in dirty politics for every small thing as this is what they can do . 3. Manager's company, very hierarchical , you can not do even small things without manager's approval , this brings lot of arrogance and a feeling of superiority in managers. The negative of this is everyone wants to be manager because the power lies there (at least in Boeing India ) and no one is looking for other roles (e.g. Architects/Product manager/Subject matter expert etc. ) , this also brings culture of sycophancy across the organization . 4.Boeing behavior remains on posters only , typically you are asked to behave opposite . If you show Boeing behavior (interpretation of that is very subjective ) and does not go well with your manager then your career may be over or you will become stagnant /sidelined. 5. Not good for experienced people if they are in other roles apart from managers as managers (coterie of managers) will ensure that if you speak up then you are sidelined ( In most of the cases or you look for other opportunities within other BU if you can't keep your mouth shut ) and eventually you leave the company after getting frustrated. Having said that this only applies for Boeing India IT&DA and I am very sure that people are empowered elsewhere 6. Not good for freshers or people in 2-5 years as well because most of the time you will work on legacy projects/old technologies and if you spend sometime here(2-3 years ) then there will be no takers for you outside Boeing . A significant time is spent building PowerPoint slides which they call entrepreneurship/startup culture :-). 7. A very high culture of sycophancy instead of merit ( most of the times ) which is disheartening , typically anyone who is on the other side of the globe is considered demigod and people who are individual contributor role in India ( However experienced they are ) are taken for granted and not listened. Managers ensure people bend and follow the "Orders" from someone from US. 8. Significant level of attrition in experienced and junior resources(not in managers though ) as they are tired of highly political and ineffective managers who are arrogant and not able to provide any value.(remember most of them are non-technical with no domain knowledge and unfortunately non-existent people skills ). 9. New President/VP conducted some surveys about effectiveness of management and people on the ground thought that this will bring some changes but nothing has changed unfortunately on the ground or not tangible. People are losing faith and attrition will continue. (may slow down a bit due to Covid )

5.0
Sep 4, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Good work life balance. 2. Good work. 3. Good compensation. 4. Has a great retention rate. 5. Feel proud to work for this company.

Cons

1. Management is very slow. 2. Too many constraints for developers as you cannot simply download any software or even a jar. You have to get the approvals to download even a single jar. (This is in place due to all the security threats even a small virus may pose, so you can't really blame the company.)

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