RTX reviews

Very poor executive leadership at the VP level and above. VPs are constantly stabbing each other in the back and only deal with whatever emergency is in front of them today. They do a very poor job of planning ahead or risk management to avoid problems coming down the road. The IIS President for the past few years has only cared about what improved stock performance that year. There was no long term plan. The people are treated as expendable. Executives spend lots of time sending out email talking about "respect" and "loyalty", but actions show these are just phrases to them. As poor as the VPs leadership is, the Program Management staff is equally bad.

One is that it is a missile defense company, so note that you will most likely work on projects that deal with the government, need to deal with classified information, and deal with the idea of working on something that will harm or kill others. Also since there are no other major engineering employers in Tucson, there seems to be a problem with the employment pool. The problems include lack of motivation for people in other parts of the country to relocate here and a bottleneck of good talent where it's difficult to move up the ranks with so many senior people camped out in the same position for years and years and years. The work environment is not that friendly in general and is competitive. It also seems like raises and promotions are more due from a "popularity contest" model than from a straight "work completed" model. And since it is a big company, you do have a number of people that "coast" where you could say the "20/80 rule applies (where it seems like 20% of the people seem to do 80% of the work).