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Pratt & Whitney

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Good place to start a career, not great for longterm growth. - Anonymous employee Pratt & Whitney Employee Review

3.0
Jul 10, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

COOL product, solid pay, stable company, you won't get laid off if you show up at work and stay the full 8 hours. Lots of smart people at the company. Pretty decent work-life balance.

Cons

The benefits are kind of a joke, although it might just be reflecting on a poor status of the health insurance industry currently. Great starting salaries, but the raises are pretty pathetic (and essentially negate themselves when they hand out 7 furlough days in a year). EVERYTHING moves slow at Pratt. Slow career progression, slow adaptability to new ideas, etc. There's layoffs every now and again, and furloughs what seems like every other year. Company is not by any means hip and limber - still a little bit of an old-white-man company (although 50% or more of the new hires and interns seem to be diversity candidates)... I'd be willing to bet the management and executive teams are 85% white men, and the ones that aren't are HR and EH&S. Some of that is just corporate america, and a lack of women in engineering in general, but still pretty poor stats.

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
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Pros

Flexible work week. As long as you reach 40 hours for the week, doesn't matter when you come/go each day. Food is pretty good.

Cons

Quick growth to P3, but growth after that stagnates/fails to be competitive in salary

1.0
Jun 6, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay and good benefits.

Cons

Personnel reporting to me had apparently looked up my political affiliation (which I had never mentioned) and took exception to it by sabotaging work that I had supervised. This was well before 2022 - actually 2015-2016 (2022 is earliest review date I could select). I was just now remembering it. This polarized political posture was a function of the plant being near Harrisburg, PA which, at least then, was a somewhat "redneckish" area. I have never discussed my politics at work, so it seemed absurd of them to look up my party affiliation and take issue with it.

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