RTX reviews

Raytheon is a "Yes Man" company. If you're not a brown-nosing yes man, expect to have very little career growth. It is definitely a "Good ole boy" culture. Middle management has becoming increasingly saturated, with less and less technical people able to solve complex engineering problems. Very clickish, and lots of nepotism. Devoid of mentoring for young new grads. They are 10-15 years behind the technology curve. Don't expect to do any real engineering and or design work. Most of the programs there are legacy programs that they have been milking for 30-50 years. Raytheon use to be a subcontractor and have opportunities for real detailed design. But over the past 7-10 years they have been shifting to a Primary Systems Integrator business model, where the money is. Technical performance is rarely recognized and or awarded. Many top technical people leave the company. The "Technical Honors" program is a joke. The most technical people never qualify, as it's a popularity contest. They still use the antiquated "stacked-ranking" performance evaluation method. This creates a very cut throat environment, and if you don't have a good boss who promotes you, expect to be ranked at the bottom regardless of performance. The facilities are poor to very poor. An employee actually filed a claim with OSHA, and they were forced to renovate some of the bathrooms as the sewers system was constantly back up. Most of the office space is in make shift tractor trailers formed together like Legos' IMO, Raytheon is in serious trouble when all their legacy/Pension employees retire. The attrition rate is so high they brought in a private firm a few years ago to understand why. The only "talent" they can bring in is New Grads from U of A, as Tucson is a one stop shop for engineering opportunities. The upper management that runs the show are completely out of touch with the sad reality of the culture of the company they help run into the ground everyday.

Management gets rewarded bonuses based on milestones reached. I came up with a paper showing that missile performance would be poor in certain areas. Their response was not to fix the problems, but rather throw me off the project, give me a poor performance review, then throw me out of the company (over a matter of months to build a paper trail). It's a good place to start a career, but it's very difficult to get any advancement unless you're part of the "in" crowd. They hire fewer people than they really need, so there can be compulsory overtime when things are busy. When things are slow, they quickly lay off a lot of people.