RTX is a hit or miss place to work
Pros
• This a good place for someone who is entry level(speaking from the IT point of view) to help jump start their career. It is not a place that I would recommend staying for a long period of time unless you plan to stay in the Defense job space. Overall working in the defense space will pigeon-hole due to the slow pace of adopting new technologies and software. • Great team and direct manager • Decent amount of work to do, to stay busy • Not a lot of pointless meetings • Continuing education benefits are pretty great • The cafe at the location I was employed was decent, food prices were a bit high for what was provided. • PTO/Mod Time was a nice addition. For those who don't know what Mod Time is, if one week I worked 45 hours, instead of trying to get OT approved and store those extra 5 hours and use them the following week to have a 35 hour week • The 9/80 schedule was a plus. 9 hour workdays, 8 on a Friday, the following week work 9 hours M-T and have Friday off. • Flex hours was amazing. I usually would work 630am - 330PM(would work and eat lunch), but if something came up and needed to come later that day I could. Also if I worked 5 hours one day, I could make up those missing hours through the week.
Cons
• Despite the engineers being "higher echelon" in IT they required a lot of hand holding and if they pushed back on a vital change, it could not implement it • Higher management is out of the loop. Direct managers(in my case) knew what needed to be done and helped provided the needed resources to accomplish it. Also with reasonable deadlines • The company itself does not take care of its employees well, the promotion system is pretty bad as well. There is no reason why a P2 who is grinding daily, tip of the spear with their work, and is heavily relied on; cannot be promoted to a P3. • The company used to manage 401k (Alight) is pretty substandard compared to other companies such as Fidelity, Vanguard, Schwab, etc. The match is decent, not bad but not the greatest I've seen/had. • This is more of a personal gripe, I disliked having to use a time card and be super granular on my time. • This is perhaps more than RTX and is on a grander scale, but getting software and applications approved takes a while. The DOD/DISA/CISA are already slow to approve software, but sometimes after it is approved by the government agency, sometimes the employees at RTX can lag behind in informing you that the application was approved.
