How to get a job at Boeing.

Do you work at Boeing? How did you find the job? How did you get that first interview?

Any advice for someone trying to get in?

Host said: Do you work at Boeing? How did you find the job? How did you get that first interview?
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It took me 2 years to get in and one to get out, they lay me off on the first change they got, no matter how qualified you are, is who you know there that makes you keep your job and for the managers you have to kiss their behinds all the time to get something.

Host said: Do you work at Boeing? How did you find the job? How did you get that first interview?
Any advice for someone trying to get in?

I found the job by happenstance and word of mouth Boeing was hiring. Today Boeing advertises their jobs much better than when I was hired. Getting the interview is solely based on how many bodies (as they view employees) they need to "backfill" other employees jobs fortunate enough to get out or need to hire extra.

Advice for somebody trying to get in: Seek counseling for those "suicidal" thoughts of working at Boeing. You may as well just jump off a cliff. The results of doing so will be essentially the same as working for Boeing and becoming a Boeing Zombie. Why isn't there a list for worst companies to work for? If there was such a list, Boeing would be right after Blackwater as the worst company to work for ever. Consider shooting yourself before working for Boeing.

worst company? you never worked for USAIRWAYS have you?

Host 3 said:
I found the job by happenstance and word of mouth Boeing was hiring. Today Boeing advertises their jobs much better than when I was hired. Getting the interview is solely based on how many bodies (as they view employees) they need to "backfill" other employees jobs fortunate enough to get out or need to hire extra.
Advice for somebody trying to get in: Seek counseling for those "suicidal" thoughts of working at Boeing. You may as well just jump off a cliff. The results of doing so will be essentially the same as working for Boeing and becoming a Boeing Zombie. Why isn't there a list for worst companies to work for? If there was such a list, Boeing would be right after Blackwater as the worst company to work for ever. Consider shooting yourself before working for Boeing.

They use a resume scanning technology like most big corporations do. The key is to use the right words to get the call. Interviews depends on the hiring manager, from easy to very hard (multiple rounds)

I am not certain where or why all of this hostility for Boeing comes from... Are all of you no longer working for Boeing? If you are ... dont you think that this type of talk about the company will cause you to no longer be working?

My husband is an Engineer for Boeing and happily so. I have to admit hearing all of your stories makes me a little antsy about it though. He just started 6 months ago. We are in a very remote area so the threat of being laid off is slim... but we would like to transfer at some point to the states.

The only reason I can see for such hostility toward the comapany from all of you is this: You were either fired, laid off, treated like a low-life because you may be one... ( you never know whit this being a forum and all) or you arent paid as much as you feel you should be so you are throwing a tantrum over it... In any rate.. I think you should be greatful you have a job if you still do with that attitude as there are many people without no a days.. and if you dont you may want to start re-thinking the reason why you dont have a job anymore...
Just some friendly opposition to what has been said.

Quote: "The only reason I can see for such hostility toward the comapany from all of you is this: You were either fired, laid off, treated like a low-life because you may be one... ( you never know whit this being a forum and all) or you arent paid as much as you feel you should be so you are throwing a tantrum over it... "

Many people we (not Boeing) have on record for experiencing this type of treatment followed company procedures and had good ethics and also tried hard to complete their job tasks. Unfortunately, there are trying times to be had for many in the aviation industry. We have experience and history dating back to the 1950's. Low bids, cost cutting, cutting corners, hiring relatives (well placed relatives), and outsourcing have caused the industry and some like them to become quite stressed. We have experience in Alaska as well on many bases there. We wished we were back there. If you do not like Alaska, it is understandable that people have their own tastes in living environment. Wherever you may be in Alaska, you are not far from some of the prettiest natural scenes in the United States. Maybe another city there will give away more free acreage in order to bring in more residents and businesses (recently happened there). We even liked Shemya when it was a going place and still miss Boozer the Dog. It is easy for anyone to say what they will on a forum such as this, however, there are government records attesting to examples cited. Keep a door open to go back to Alaska...just in case you change your mind. Alaska, in our opinion, is the undiscovered country.

Wow, I just ran across this website 15 minutes ago and let me see....hmmm, my friends and I have been called unethical, dishonest and desperate. And since I worked very hard to get into management after 15 years, I am now a "low-life" that people sold their souls to. I no longer work at Boeing, but not for any of the reasons listed above. What needs to stop is the "Management bigotry" that goes on in Boeing. You can't make comments about people you don't know. There probably are people in management that meet your discription, but does that justify making that statement about all in that category. It is no different than hating someone for there color, religion, or whatever. I for one was proud to be a Boeing employee both before and after I went into management. I hope that the people in this forum that hate the company don't work for Boeing anymore. Life is to short, find something you like and get on with life. Good luck

Nowhere did anyone allege all Boeing management is unethical and dishonest. You, a former manager, even admit that there are probably managers that are as described at Boeing. Coming from someone that might be biased towards Boeing management, that can be read as a ringing endorsement of what was written negatively (rightly) about Boeing management. Unfortunately you took it personally when you shouldn't have. I admit there are likely ethical managers at Boeing. Maybe your department was an exception to the rule. Even Boeing's current CEO has mentioned this "past" penchant for management to do anything to get the job done," and has even voiced that that is unacceptable, if laws are broken. Even though he talks the talk and does not walk the walk on this issue, he has at least acknowledged its existence, even if Boeing has no intention of really ending such unethical and illegal actions by management to meet targets. So, I would think, if you are/were a loyal manager, you would have to acknowledge this fact yourself. Boeing management is not exactly a discriminated against class, unless you call living in gated golf course communities and getting overpaid discrimination. Worked hard for fifteen years to get into management? Most people can train their lungs to suck the golf ball through the garden hose in much less time than that. I've never heard of working hard for fifteen years to get into Boeing management. I've never seen skill at a position below or in management be a requirement for being in management. Rather, it is what you are willing to do to get the job done that seems to matter most. Life is too short is a generality. That is true for good people, but it is much, much too long for others for those around them. You should hope that people that are adverse to Boeing management corruption stay with the company. Such people really love the company, and hate it when corrupt management puts their stock option's value above the company's interests.

I hope you get over your hostility someday. Goodby & good luck.

This is to Kolipoki in Tonga:

This is off the subject kinda. I was hoping you could tell me how long a new Boeing employee non-union needs to work before putting in for a transfer to a different location?

I currently work at the site in Alaska and though my family and I love AK we would like to have the warmer weather along with more life options found down in the states.

I will have been a Boeing employee for a year this OCTober.
Any help with this would be great.

Dear G&S,

No problem on the subject change. As a matter of fact, thank you for changing it. I will have to apologize since I do not now what the minimum time is for transfering. I am only aware of a 1 year requirement when you are moved to a location on Boeings tab. I have no way of finding out for sure on the transfer as I no longer work for Boeing and there are no Boeing offices in the Kingdom of Tonga. The best thing to do is apply and let HR tell you if you need to wait longer. It is my opinion that you have probably been there long enough.

Good luck on your search.

Thanks . I will wait the year. That will be in OCTOBER.
I looked at your homeland and it is BEAUTIFUL!

I have worked for boeing for the past 3 1/2 years. I cannot complain. I started out as a contract hire ( i worked for a different company) needless to say----it took almost a year and a half before boeing actually hired me on. i am sorry for the bad comments listed here , but this is the most rewarding, satisfying job i have ever had. benefits are better than most of my friends that work for other big companies. I have worked in two different buildings thus far and the atmosphere is the same. I love my job and this is the first time i can say this and mean it. so to people wanting to get in, i would suggest being a contractor first or interning first, boeing hires their interns and contractors quicker than just hiring someone off the streets. To heck with some of these comments. YOU WOULD LOVE IT HERE.

Maybe your being in the "cost plus" defense side of Boeing has provided some insulation between your position and some of the corruption documented (and true, by the way) above. I remember when I was on a similar cost plus defense program for Boeing before I moved to Commercial--management made workers work 12 hour days seven days a week and harrassed those who wanted time off for vacation or took sick leave--all because for every hour a worker worked on that program, Boeing got a guaranteed ungodly sum in profit. Didn't matter if there was nothing to do as parts were late and we had to read blueprints for 12 hours on order for Boeing to thusly bilk the U.S. Taxpayer. But, if you were just looking out for #1 as you and Boeing are, there was good money to be made with all that mandatory OT, even though you had no personal life to spend it in. So if you are in it for the money and don't give a damn about defrauding the U.S taxpayer (or other fraud around you), then Boeing is a good place for you. True, if you have no conscience, then you would love working for Boeing, as being unethical can be lucrative. The people making the above comments you disagree with calling Boeing on their still ethically challenged ways and immoral and illegal conduct are not likely to go to heck loike you wish they would--quite the opposite. It is you and those like you who ignore Boeing misconduct for personal gain that will end up in that place rightly one day.

G&S - It depends on your relocation package. When Boeing moved me, it was two years; however, each situation is different. As Kolipoki stated, apply for positions. If you can't be relocated, HR or the hiring manager will let you know.

Host 2 in Freeport, Florida said:

I worked there in the late '80, things have
not changed. It's not what you know but WHO you know....

I am amused every time I hear people say "It's not what you know but WHO you know", as if that is exclusive to their industry only. I have news for you, it's like that pretty much everywhere. I have worked in 5 different mid to large sized companies in the past 15 years, and that was the case for ALL of them.

So bottom line is once you find a job you somewhat enjoy, in an industry you respect, then stick with it and stop whining.

I totally agree with Ves...as far as I know, jobs are "at-will" meaning you are free to leave whenever you want as much as your employer can release you. If no one is forcing you to stay, then leave! All companies have their office politics because the world isn't perfect. It is as much who you know and how much you know that will keep you in the game. If you want to work for Boeing, go for it. Then share your experiences in this forum...

Guys! I think that you can go anywhere and have a bad experience. You just have to be in the right place at the right time. If you are in any place at the wrong time you will probably "hate" that place. So, sounds like some people have had some good experiences and some have had bad...
I have had nothing but good experiences as a Boeing employee. Yes, I have worked some long hours but, I get paid for all my time and I work around great people. I have never had any complaints to my management to take any vacation time. Of course, any job that I have worked have had times where they were hard on your for taking vacation. (i.e. retail store at Christmas time) So, no job is perfect but I say if your good times are outweighing your bad times you should take that into consideration. If your bad times are out weighing your good then you might be in the "wrong" place so good luck on finding your right place.

ves, BCAengineer, Cerika1984,

You guys and/or gals are delusional to say the least. What went wrong with your upbringing? Just because Boeing wants only yes men and women who won't have the gonads to raise their hand in a meeting at tell the bad news even if not doing so will cost lives (take the resulting 787 delays from this kind of "hide the problems, it's all good" "ethical" employee conduct at Boeing. If you are the ethical Boeing employees, you have to wonder what the unethical ones are capable of.

Because of your myopic and disfunctional mindset, Boeing has devolved into the "Enron-esque" mess it is in today. Unfortunately, the really good, knowledgeable, and ethical people do exactly what you state they should do--they leave Boeing.

That leaves a company full of unethical yes mene and women like you that Boeing is today. Of course, none of you were smart enough to see the results of your inane advice.

Here is the correct advice, to which I think you (if unbiased) will agree:

All unethical, unqualified, scared to tell bad news to management, brown-nosers, people who golf, fish, hunt, or wash the bosses car because they know they would be fired for their obvious incompetence otherwise, those knowingly defrauding Boeing's customers, those suspecting their department is defrauding Boeing customers and do nothing about it, those too scared to call or email "Boeing Ethics" or go to law enforcement agencies outside Boeing about Boeing wrongdoing because they know doing so will put a target on their head and result in their losing their job that is more precious to them than having any ethics whatsoever, and all Boeing management, including Boeing's CEO on down, resign immediately!

Guess what that would do? As you weren't smart enough to figure out the result of "if you don't like the fraud, leave" advice, I'll spell it out here.

It would solve every of myriad problems Boeing has, if they hire truly ethical employess in your places.

Thanks for the advice. If, apparently, Boeing isn't the "perfect world" I thought it was, send all us applications to where you work since I'm sure it bleeds ethics from the veins of all who work there. What it boils down to is that we all work for money to sustain our lifestyles. This may be a shot in the dark but I'm sure there's even more pressure on management to make money since they also answer to shareholders. I don't know any company that doesn't operate like this. But I'm not here to go at it. Let people choose where they want to work and let them create their own experiences. There's always Google and their "do no evil" mantra.

Boeing is actually the self-descibed "most arrogant company on the face of the planet." However, you won't find them putting that in their commercials which are geared to make them seem the opposite of the company the really are. "That's why we're here"? I'm sure most non-delusionsl Boeing employees laugh out loud whenever they see that. If the commercial showed Boeing's stock price history and bottom line data, then the guy or gal said that, it would be the perfect Boeing commercial. But to infer Boeing cares about anything else with these commercials is a pure lie.

The vast majority of other companies (as Boeing would attest) in this country are way more ethical than Boeing.

Reason being, Boeing has grown too big, powerful, and arrogant, and they retain corrupt and incompetent management (take Mike Bair, for instance) and get rid of the rest. They can break the law routinely and are rarely held accountable for it, and in the few times they are, it is done in backroom deals the public never hears of with the only consequence a fine a minute fraction of what Boeing has actually defrauded us, the taxpayer, out of.

Solution to this: Break Boeing up until the parts are too small to have the power and arrogance noted. Fire all management and start over, with an eye on hiring managers that actually care if they follow the laws and regulations in their industry, and don't care just about schedule, cost, and the bottom line. Please write your Congressional representatives and ask that they do this ASAP (require a Boeing breakup).

Your precious job's future and the company's future quite well may depend on it.

Your opinion is appreciated. You must have either had a really bad experience at Boeing or you are a corporate savior. If breaking up Boeing is the solution, you must also have posted these exact comments in forums for Wal-Mart, General Motors, General Electric, Citigroup, IBM, AT&T, Bank of America, Ford, Exxon Mobil...basically all the companies on the Fortune 1000 list. Good luck!

Thanks, BCAengineer, for replying. Actually, both are true (bad experience and self appointed "corporate savior"--your words, not my chosen ones).

Your last sentence is myopic, however. I don't pretend to be able to save Boeing from its own deep corruption and numerous frauds, much less every corporation that may also be defraudiing their customers. So, I must focus solely on Boeing. Achieving just a minor improvement in Boeing's compliance with laws and regulations and correspondingly getting Boeing to stop relying on breaking laws and regulations and placing passengers and military lives at risk just to pad the bottom line would be a major accomplishment for an average citizen like me. That's why I won't dilute my efforts as you would if you were me, apparently.

Plus, Boeing is the self described most arrogant company on the face of the planet. That in itself makes them the most urgent of the 1000 companies to stop the fraud of. Also remember that the vast majority of those Fortune 1000 companies do not resort to fraud like Boeing does to pad their bottom lines. Neither do they intentionally place millions of lives at much greater risk and the lives of our brave military personnel at much greater risk like Boeing does through many of their frauds. Take the Southwest Airlines/FAA corruption situation and multiply it by several orders of magnitude and you have just one of the numerous frauds Boeing is engaged in today despite events such as the Druyun and Lockheed contract proposal/pricing theft affairs. That is why Boeing management calls themselves the most arrogant company on the face of the planet internally. At least they realize they are defrauding their customers, although that may be a bad thing once they are caught.

I hate applying job at Boeing.com. Why? The system sent job notifications to my email almost everyday, but every times I looked at the job descriptions I felt want to throw up. I see no point of being an engineer. This is just a personal preference, did not mean to offend anyone.

I just got an awesome job offer to work as a contractor at Boeing in another state. I moved to that state to begin work, and the day before I was supposed to start, they called and said that my SSN came back as not eligible to work for Boeing! I have no idea why, as I have been a contractor at Boeing's for many years, and have never been fired. I did have a real witch of a supervisor once, who didn't like me because I used to go to lunch with her boss (he and I used to work together at another Boeing years prior).
Could she have done this? Does anyone know how to get information on this and how I go about getting it removed, or at least getting a chance to prove
the accusations wrong, whatever they may be?
Thanks.

C. LeBrun,

I suggest contacting that Boeing witch manager's boss you used to lunch with. Maybe they can go to bat with HR for you. You need an insider working on your behalf to help or get the info from HR you want. They will likely never tell you, as you are on the outside. The only people Boeing respects worse than their own employees is members of the public or military they dupe into using their products.

You are likely flagged in your "virtual folder" "do not rehire." Having that buddy manager inside is likely the only way you will find out why you were flagged that way.

Of course, I am no advocate for working for the crooks in Boeing management, but I understand it is hard to get any job in this economy. Maybe you can get this red flag removed from your "folder" as noted above and get on at Boeing, and be one of the few, proud, ethical employees that still work there.

But, until Boeing management is de-witched and de-warlocked, fly Airbus and tell all you loved ones to do so as well. Tell all your enemies to fly Boeing.

Boeing Expert, I think we've all had just about enough of your "expertise." Mostly everything you write is plagued with pure speculation and offers nothing useful to anyone's questions. Let's try to be more open-minded and not so negative every time. No one likes negativity.

"All had enough?" Not sure who you purport to speak on behalf of.

There is no speculation at all. Like, you, I have witnessed incompetent and corrupt Boeing management first hand, like many of the other posters above (C. Lebrun, etc.).

As you can see, I was offering useful advice to C. Lebrun.

Of course, that is obviously not what bothered you. It was C. Lebrun's (witch characterization) and my characterization of corrupt and incompetent Boeing management and the effects of that mismanagement on the safety of Boeing's products that did. I've seen that first hand as well. No speculation involved.

I'm very open minded. I wish corrupt Boeing management didn't exist, but it does. Being open minded does not allow me to ignore the facts that your close mindedness as false positivity allow you to do.

I think we're all Americans that wish Boeing to succeed.

But that will only happen once the company gets rid of its corrupt and incompetent management, which is the vast majority of it.

The so called "ethics reforms" post Boeing management Druyun/Sears and EELV lawbreaking were obviously a fraud. Boeing management today is as corrupt as it ever was due to the fact that those ethics reforms were never actually extended to the crooks at Boeing who needed them most and made the creation of that program a necessary false diversion to placate the DOJ--Boeing management.

Boeing management is teflon coated when it comes to ethics violations. The surest way to get harassed and retaliated against is to allege an ethics problem with a manager. No matter how much evidence you have or the severity of the fraud the manager is involved in, you will get back the results of the "investigation" as "unsubstantiated," then the retaliation will begin.

It is no accident that whomever sent the email to Boeing headquarters outing Stonecipher's affair did not identify themselves. If they had, they would have been the one targeted instead.

Yes, but you see, no one cares what you think of Boeing management. You litter these forums with negative comments non-stop, and I'm sick of reading them. No one appreciates your takes on how corrupt management is, so you may as well save your breath for people who care. On the other hand, you could just discuss the topics at hand like you're supposed to, and there won't be any issues. The topic here is "how to get a job at Boeing," not "is Boeing management corrupt or not?"

I don't want to delete your posts, but I will if they continue to be off-topic.

Noted, Mark, but your statements like "no one cares what you think of Boeing management" seem way overbroad and biased. These type of comments have been made by others since almost four years ago when this topic started. Why, then, am I being targeted for telling the truth and trying to help others. As you can see, I offered C. Lebrun some very helpful advice on resolving his issue. He called a Boeing manager a witch. Are you going to be fair and delete him too as well as any other poster not having only positive comments about Boeing employment? "No one appreciates your take..." What kind of statement is that? At least my arguments are fact based and not pulled out of thin air like yours.

As you can see by my ratings, people have found my advice more helpful than most. That is objective data--your "no one cares" is not.

It would be nice if you practiced the objectivity of your posters that read better than you do. The topic is not, as you falsely said "how to get a job at Boeing," the topic is, as cut and pasted word for word from the actual topic above "Do you work at Boeing? How did you find the job? How did you get that first interview? Any advice for someone trying to get in?

As you can see, it is much broader than your biased definition, as you work for Boeing. "How did you find the job" is what I post the truthful info that offends you under.

And how did a Boeing employee become moderator of this forum to stifle free speech about Boeing? Did Boeing buy Indeed.com to squelch the truth. What is you reason for bias in this? Do you own Boeing stock, or are you a Boeing recruiter?

I applied for a job with Boeing about a month ago and today got a "Congratulations" for applying computer generated email and asking my to go to my Boeing account and complete a full application. Do these typically lead to an interview/job or am I still one of a hundred at this point? Thanks for any thoughts/help.

Wow, after reading all the posts, I have figured out what probably caused me
to be flagged as a do not hire. (Duh, it seems so obvious now)

The Boeing I was working at, claimed to be a Level 3 CMMI facility. About 3 days after I got there, I just had to laugh (to myself, of course), because the code was a complete mess. There were 5 or 6 versions of the same document floating around, and when I inquired, the response was, "Well, we are so busy, we can't put them into config. control every time we do a redline"
So, I was assigned a few PRs to implement, and 4 of them were for the same subsystem, and had requirements redlines attached to them. Since all 4 were changes to the same subsystem, the same document needed to be changed for all 4 PRs. Each PR contained a different version of the document, which means that the config. control board approved redlines of requirements that were not current. So, I was sitting there with 4 versions of completely different requirements, that had redlines to implement. I didn't say anything to the supervisor (the witch), but I asked fellow employees, who hmmmed and hawwwed around, then told me to just make put all the redlines into a new version and change the code. This was impossible, since some redlines overwrote others, and it was a mess.
The next week, in our group meeting, there was a QA guy there. The witch gave him a kiss ass introduction and told the group that "We are going for Level 4 ! Mr. xxx is here to help us, and if anyone can give him feedback to help him with this process, that would be great!" I mentioned that I had worked in many Level 4 facilities, some of which were Boeing, and I'd be willing to help any time he wants. That was the end of it, and meeting was over. (What I didn't know, was that even though she was treating him like a king, he was actually the enemy.)
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So the next day, the guy stopped me in the hallway, and asked me what I thought of our current "processes", and what I think we could do to step it
up to Level 4. I smiled, and asked him if we were actually at Level 3.
He said yes, and I just couldn't help laughing. I briefly (not detailed) told him that there are old versions of docs being redlined and there is nothing current in CM. I gave him a few other tips on what had to happen to even be at a Level 2, and he took notes.
The next day, or a few days later, I was "laid off" due to re-organization within the group.
I don't think that this guy mentioned my name, but he may have. Alot of people saw me talking with him in the hallway, because I wasn't aware at the time that it was not ok. She told us to talk to him and give him feedback.
How was I supposed to know that he was the "enemy" when she was kissing his ass so hard in the meeting.????
That has to be it, and all this time, I never figured it out.
Thanks to everyone for the comments. Something you said turned on a light bulb in my memory.

So, will the "Do Not Hire" be on there forever? Is there any possible way to have it removed? I have worked for Boeings all over the US, with great success.
In fact, I started my career at Rockwell International as a full time employee, and worked there for 6 years. Left on great terms, and then it morphed into Boeing.
Any ideas? (The witch's boss who was my buddy is no longer working there, I checked).

Had an interview about three weeks ago it went great . I was told to keep an eye on my status and if it did'nt change I was in and to just hang tight for the offer . It's been three weeks now and my status remains the same and have heard nothing so far. Can anyone tell me what is the average lead time for them to send out the offer ...(it's a Skilled Trades job). Any insight would be great

Only Boeing HR can tell you that. I haven't dealt with Boeing hiring for decades, but if it is anything like the past, you may never hear from them. Boeing doesn't care about you--only filling the job, and they will do so only if they have to. Last minute changes can even cancel the requisition. Employees are given little info at Boeing, and are treated like numbers and a necessary evil, so as a non-employee, expect worse treatment, unless your skills are in high demand, in which case they will suck up to you only til the point they have you in their clutches.

I don't think you are so much a "Boeing Expert" as a disgruntled employee. I thought this was a forum on getting a job at boeing, not a complaining session. Your negative comments are very annoying...we all know how you feel about Boeing so you can stop now.

UPDATE ON THE DO NOT HIRE LIST!

Turns out I'm not on the list after all. Confirmed by Total Access.
It seems that my perspective new manager who offered me the job called
the witch X Supervisor (using my SSN, her name came up as my last supervisor)
and she told him negative things about me.

So I lost an $80/hour job because she is an amazon looking scag who had the
hots for her Manager, and couldn't handle me going to lunch with him, while
she sat in the cafeteria and ate potato chips and french fries.

All she had to do was ask, and I would have taken her to the mall and bought
her some real clothes and brought her to the gym with me to lose some of that
weight....Would have been cheaper for me in the long run.
Don't the other 9 or 10 Boeing Bosses I've had since 1985 matter at all?
I have 3 of them listed as my top references.....
Guess not, since nobody called them.

Gotta love corporate America!

I was gonna say... I found it hard to believe that there is a such thing as a "do not hire list." So what about your past PEs? Weren't they positive? Managers can pull those up... Also, chances are if your prospective manager didn't hire you solely on the comments from your previous manager, you wouldn't want to work for this person anyway. Either that or you're not telling us the whole story! Either way, just keep applying to other jobs. There's no reason to give up especially since you have such a long history with Boeing.

I received my offer letter via e-mail. Did my drug test last week, I'm just waiting on the results. Should be good to go no worries there. The lead time is a bit slow for the offer letter but, it is a big Company. Background check and Drug screen results and I'm off to Portland..."Boeing expert" I have seen some of your comments. I have worked at some very large companies myself and have seen all sorts of things. I had a plant close under my feet after 15 years of hard work and service, I have worked in total hell holes trying to rebuild my life. I Have up rooted my family at great cost monetarily and emotionally ...at the end of the day you work hard keep your mouth shut and pray for better days. If you have worked at Boeing for any length of time consider yourself lucky. There are those of us that have had great miss fortunes and have lost everything. I am very gratful I have this chance of giving my Family what they deserve again, and have the ability to send my son to College, and God willing retire before I'm 75. Life is not fair nor perfect..I wish all of you the best of Luck....Carpe diem !

dcaudle68 in Fenton, Missouri: that email does mean that you've made it past the first stage. Usually the specific hiring manager will contact you directly via email or phone to set up an interview. I've received 3 of those emails which have resulted in 2 interviews. The first one they flew me up to Seattle, put me up in a hotel, paid for my rental car...but I didn't make the point cutoff. The second one resulted in a phone interview, and next week they're flying me up there for a second interview. Good luck and keep trying. Corporate america isn't for everyone, but I've known a lot of people that work for Boeing and they only have good things to say about it. Keep in mind that Boeing is a company based on contracts too, so layoffs are always possible.

Mark M - Boeing in Seattle, Washington said: I was gonna say... I found it hard to believe that there is a such thing as a "do not hire list." So what about your past PEs? Weren't they positive? Managers can pull those up... Also, chances are if your prospective manager didn't hire you solely on the comments from your previous manager, you wouldn't want to work for this person anyway. Either that or you're not telling us the whole story! Either way, just keep applying to other jobs. There's no reason to give up especially since you have such a long history with Boeing.

The problem with Boeing is not with the people of the company. With a company that size you’re going to have some bad eggs somewhere. The problem I found is the ethics that they say are so important. As stated on the Boeing ethics web site word for word
I want to personally ask everyone in the company to live up to the standards set forth in the Boeing Code of Conduct and to act with integrity all the time; to contact Ethics for help when necessary; and to know that everyone in the Ethics organization is standing by to help.
Ethics is integral to every employee “doing the right thing.” Every Boeing person needs to participate and practice ethics and good business conduct. Integrity and ethical behavior is everyone’s responsibility.
—Maureen Herward
Don’t believe a word of it, I worked in Everett WA off and on for over ten years. I was fired for the company because of some personal problems I was having in my life in 2008. If I had lied and said that I had a substance abuse problem It would have been a none issue 30 days in rehab slap on the wrist. But instead I told the truth and I was released. In 2009 I was hired on in Charleston sc as a contractor. Traveled all the way from Seattle to work. Working hard for 7 months with no problem. 12 hour days 7 days a week and what happened I was fired again because of the issues I had in Everett WA. The problem I have with that is

I received my congratulations letter 11 days ago but didn't get the application link on the Boeing website. I called total access and they had a hiring manager call me. They contacted the hiring person for me and contacted the hiring manager and told them that I was having problems. I got the application link two days after the cut off but was told not to worry about it being late.
They worked hard for me over a weekend to get this resolved. I got my application in and now I am just waiting to hear from them. My wife works as an exercise physiologist for Boeing on the south end of Seattle and LOVES her job and loves working for Boeing. So i am excited to hear from them.

Had my interview today at 11:30 and by 2:30 the same afternoon was told I would be receiving a job offer in the next couple days. I must have done something right! :)

Well I finally got a call Thursday night asking if I was still interested in the position and said they would call the next day to set up the flight and everything to do the second interview. So far no call. Hopefully the call will come Monday. We are also in a bad situation with our apartment. Our lease is up and we are going to have to go month to month until we know something. Breaking the lease early (shortest is 6 months) would mean a $2500 up front fee from when we tell them we are terminating early. Hopefully I'll know something soon because month to month is really expensive.

Todd L Smith,

Not true. As the first poster said, may God have mercy on your soul.

We had a phone interview approx 2 weeks ago and filled out the online assessment. He has just been contacted for his second interview this time in person. I assume this is a positive sign??? Will it be much different than the phone interview?

blackie123 Did the hiring manager contact you and have they scheduled it yet? Its been almost a week since I was told I got a second interview but my travel plans haven't been scheduled yet.

He actually got an email to which he is supposed to reply however the site says its experiencing difficulty, so he's going to try it in the Am.