Is Boeing a good place to work as software eng?

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Nov 30, 2007 | 11:01 AM

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magician

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Originally Posted by YoZUpZ,Nov 30 2007, 11:40 AM

One guy with a Masters Degree
One guy with a Batchelors Degree
One girl with a Batchelors Degree
Me with a High School diploma and a Freshman in college (majoring in Business, nothing even computer related)

Maybe the guy with the Master's degree is getting so much more because he knows how to spell.

The guy and the girl with the Bachelor's degrees should work on that.

Nov 30, 2007 | 11:40 AM

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TW00Si

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Originally Posted by magician,Nov 30 2007, 01:46 PM

I analyzed mortgage-backed securities for PIMCO for five years. Financial companies do tons of software development.

Of course there's software development. What I meant was that if there's a way to solve a particular problem, management would take the "old way" route as oppose to taking the "new way" route. It's old platform for doing the safe way vs what is new and out there now.

Nov 30, 2007 | 01:35 PM

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YoZUpZ

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Originally Posted by magician,Nov 30 2007, 12:01 PM

Maybe the guy with the Master's degree is getting so much more because he knows how to spell.

The guy and the girl with the Bachelor's degrees should work on that.

LOL... good point... I've been up for the past 22 hours, so I'm kinda out of it

Nov 30, 2007 | 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by diabolus2k,Nov 30 2007, 06:25 AM

Not much? For your first job out of college?? Are your friends SW engineers as well? FYI, starting salary for an entry-level SW engineer at Boeing is generally lower than that, so that's why I said $65k is pretty good..

Lockheed offers around $65k in high cost of living areas (nor cal, socal) for entry level sw engineers (fresh out of college with a BS).

I would think Boeing would offer around the same amount.

Nov 30, 2007 | 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by corey415,Nov 30 2007, 03:48 PM

Lockheed offers around $65k in high cost of living areas (nor cal, socal) for entry level sw engineers (fresh out of college with a BS).

I would think Boeing would offer around the same amount.

It really depends what college you graduated from, GPA, class rank, etc... but in general, they will tend to lowball people on their first offer. $50-$60k is the norm, but if you negotiate (and you went to a good school), $65k should be attainable.