<p>I was thinking of working for boeing. I wonder what colleges Boeing frequently hires from.</p>
<p>Probably somewhere near Seattle. Boeing probably hires locally.</p>
<p>It’s mostly geographic- I’d say places in Washington and other places near Boeing facilities. If you want to look at colleges, you could try searching around on LinkedIn for Boeing employees.</p>
<p>Here’s where they have Career Fairs (currently UIUC and Virginia Tech): <a href=“http://www.boeing.com/boeing/careers/collegecareers/events_calendar.page”>http://www.boeing.com/boeing/careers/collegecareers/events_calendar.page</a></p>
<p>Recruit and hire nat/int basis. Hardly just local.</p>
<p>Since Boeing has divisions in many states, it recruits nationwide. </p>
<p>What do you want to do at Boeing? and why do you want to work there? There are other aerospace, defense industry companies that will pay as well or better.</p>
<p>my(old) teachers brother works at boeing. he went to school in san diego and is from a salinas farm family. It’s anyones game <:-P </p>
<p>According to LinkedIn, Boeing is the second most popular employer for UW alumni, and the third most popular employer for Caltech alumni.</p>
<p>Auburn engineers work at Boeing in many locations, Alabama engineers too - guess what, they have planes and fly all over the country to recruit and Boeing has locations all over the country too - not just in northwest.</p>
<p>My family acquaintance works for Boeing. He traveled to Duke University to have recruiting seminar or something. </p>
<p>Like KimberlyLaila said, it’s anyone’s game; Boeing’s university recruiting operation is nationwide. A friend’s daughter interviewed with Boeing at an engineering student convention in Nashville earlier this year. Incidentally, in case you hadn’t noticed, Boeing no longer maintains its headquarters in the Pacific Northwest. Even much of the Dreamliner project will be built in South Carolina, of all places. But that’s a story for another thread.</p>
<p>Each Boeing location tends to hire locally, but they also hire outside each individual locations immediate area. For instance, Boeing St. Louis (the old McDonnell Douglas) hires a lot of Missouri S&T grads, but the Wichita, Seattle, and SoCal locations were known to hire there also. Boeing is one of those companies that is so big, they’re going to hire from everywhere there are good engineers, though you’ll have better luck the closer you are to your desired location.</p>
<p>I think for students they probably recruit nationally but for experience people they hire locally. I thought there are only manufacturing plan in Carolina.</p>
<p>Boeing has a strong presence at WUSTL. According to linkedin, Boeing is the #1 employer among alumni of WUSTL, followed by WUSTL Med. The two parties also work together to sponsor the WUSTL/boeing First Scholarship for prospectives. </p>
<p>I want to be a material engineer, but I want to work in the aerospace industry. </p>
<p>Theres a Boeing facility here in St Louis, they hire quite a few out of Wustl, SLU, and MOS&T</p>
<p>When I worked for Boeing in Seattle years ago, they recruited from all over the country. I was in a group that did computer modeling and simulation. Thinking back on the people who sat near me, we had lots of UW alumni, along with grads from MIT, Stanford, UCLA, USC (the one in LA,) University of Alaska, Case Western, Seattle U., Portland State, Washington State, Wichita State, Texas A&M, Oregon Tech, Cornell, Michigan, and the University of North Dakota. There was also a guy who went to a little liberal arts college,but I can’t remember which one.</p>
<p>I’m sure I’m forgetting a few.</p>
<p>One should keep in mind that although Boeing was founded in Seattle, it is currently headquartered in Chicago and the company recruits heavily in many parts of the country, including Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri and Washington, to name a few. As a rule of thumb, if one wishes to work as an engineer for Boeing, attending a school with a good Aerospace Engineering or Mechanical Engineering program would make sense. </p>
<p>@simba9 What majors did everyone have, just out of curiosity?</p>
<p>Actually, if your goal is to work for Boeing, they probably hire every engineering major you can possibly think of. Manufacturing aircraft is a complex business. The most expensive part of a modern aircraft is probably the part you don’t think of - the software.</p>
<p>Back when I worked in the defense side of the business, the old joke was that software was the ultimate aerospace product. It weighed nothing, occupied no space, and cost a lot of money. And that was 30 years ago when software barely did anything compared to today.</p>
<p>Boeing headquarter in Chicago probably does not have engineering, mostly finance or HR.</p>