I’ve been applying for a job for a while now. Just got an offer from Boeing. Should I take it? It sounds like not the best idea atm, but at the same time it’s not easy to find a job these days, especially one which would help your resume for the future.Would it make sense to try Boeing at least for a while?
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Answering the question of should anyone take a job at Boeing is answered by first determining your skin color, plumbing, and age. Being white, male, or over 30, forgetaboutit.
The only people who can last for more than 10 years of Boeing are people protected by DEI females and minorities. for everyone else it’s a dead end job that you will be laid off from. It’s particularly difficult to get promoted if you’re white and male.
"Boeing is no exception but is still a great company."
Delusional alternative fact spoken like a true executive clown...
"I've been patient here, worked hard and am already a millionaire in my 40's."
LOL...you will need at least 20 times that to retire comfortably!
Don't be young and d-mb. Start with a company that has a future. Steer clear young engineer 🙂
Come on in. I started young and have been here ever since, but you came to the wrong website for info. lol. Most people on here hate life, hate their jobs and never find good in anything. They have negative views on everything and they wonder why their life doesn't go as planned. I've been patient here, worked hard and am already a millionaire in my 40's. Each company has it's ups and downs and never is perfect. Boeing is no exception but is still a great company if you see through all the riff raff. Tone out the negative people and do what you want to do and focus on your goals and you will thrive regardless of where you choose to work.
Agree with posts above. Work in wing paint. A good gal engineer been here a few yrs does nothing she was taught in college. Her job consists of something anybody could do without the degree. If it were 20 yrs or more the later it would be a different story . This company isn’t even a shadow of what it once was. Try Orion or space x. There not really any real engineering here anymore unfortunately. Pretty much why were where we’re at. Going right down the sh*tter. Good luck.
All of these comments are true and your instincts have already told you all you need to know. I will add that I have many executive friends at companies that have unofficial policies of not hiring people who have worked at Boeing. The bad habits you internalize early in your career at Boeing will stay with you for the rest of your career. That first job is mighty important and if you have to look for a year before you find a good job, it would be worth it (vs. working for Boeing). Boeing is filled with desperate people, with questionable qualifications and dire finances, who are mostly one broken refrigerator away from bankruptcy - even if you are very good, the Boeing lifers will do everything in their power to derail your career and gaslight you into thinking you are just stupid (have seen it happen many times). Good luck, I know going against the temptation of working at a big name company at this stage of your career is difficult (been there, done that) - but remember, no one in recent memory has gotten even modestly wealthy, or has added anything of value to the practice of engineering, by working at Boeing.
Congrats on getting the job offer, but then why in the world would anyone want to actually submit their resume and try to get a job at Boeing in the first place? Of course, Boeing is desperate to acquire enough monkeys for their incompetent clowns to manage, but are you equally desperate to add this embarassing company to your work history on your resume going forward?
Take the job only if you're confident you can fix the 737 MAX Failure, the 787 BadDreamliner, or the Boeing Starliar because nobody else can so far.
Ignore what the Boeing Manager or Boeing Recruiters described about the job. Over the years, Boeing has off-loaded so much design, analysis and fabrication work that there is hardly any interesting engineering design or analysis work being done inside Boeing anymore.
The likely hood is you will not be doing much if any engineering design or analysis work in your Boeing job. The Boeing company no longer does much in-house design and analysis work or part fabrication. For years the MBA's and Bean-Counters at Boeing convinced leadership that Boeing does not need that many engineers because Boeing moved away from in-house part design and part fabrication. With this wisdom, Boeing also lost part ownership and are now at the mercy of the small vendors.
Boeing contracts design, analysis and fabrication work out to the lowest bidder. You probably will be assigned to monitor one or two Vendors. That jobs' responsibilities are going to have you spending your time at Boeing on the phone all day begging some Vendor you are assigned to monitor to deliver their parts on-time, hopefully that meet engineering drawings and specs and are free of defects. This will be a never-ending headache because a lot of Vendors are small companies with limited in-house engineering experience or talent. Therefore, you will probably be working with a lot of part defects that vendors deliver to Boeing trying to figure out if these parts with defects can still be used or not.
If this kind of work interests, you or this is the only job offer you have in hand, then consider taking the Boeing job now even if you plan to leave after finding a better or more interesting job.
Trust me. Having Boeing engineering on your resume is the kiss of death for any future engineering career. Boeing engineering is often joked about in the engineering community. About the only thing worse would be having Boeing management on your resume.
I agree with the previous comments here. It's really not worth it
Run!!!
Don’t relocate or go out of your way for it because you’ll be laid off before too long. You won’t gain anything in terms of engineering experience, it will be a stain on your resume, and probably leave you doubting your entire career/life choices.
Proceed with extreme caution and only out of considerable desperation.
If you are able to afford food and shelter while looking for another offer, do that instead.
Take the job so that when the next round of layoffs occur, you'll likely be one of the first to be let go (and will save my own job for at least a little longer)... :-)