RTX reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(7,778 total reviews)
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Christopher T. Calio

60% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

RTX has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,778 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The RTX employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aeroespacial y defensa industry (3.6 stars).

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3.0
Oct 17, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

There are a good variety of projects to work on. You get to see a lot of cool projects and work with a lot of people. The base pay is pretty good, definitely not bad for a new college grad. The benefits are pretty good.

Cons

They kind of throw new people into the deep end. Didn't receive too much training early on and just got put directly on projects. Feel like I should be shadowing or working directly with someone who's been there for a while. While some parts of this were good (sink or swim, you learn how to do stuff quick), it is very intimidating for a new hire fresh out of college. Also, my management and "mentor/ambassador" have not really engaged me in any way. I'm always having to go find them rather than them coming by my work area and asking how I'm doing and if I'm having any trouble with anything.

3.0
Jul 5, 2017

A mixed bag

Recommend
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Pros

A great place to have a stable career working on interesting projects. Raytheon seems to do a good job of riding out the various "storms" that hit the general market and even the defense sector. For some of what it does, Raytheon is the best in the world so you can have the opportunity to work on technology that simply isn't available anywhere else.

Cons

The company has turned into a bureaucratic nightmare that doesn't invest in its employees. Training only consists of useless "required" training and you're expected to do it on your own time. Policies have replaced employee decision authority and common sense. Career success seems very binary at the company -- either you really "make it" or you're part of the regular pool that gets 2-3% every year. The company doesn't seem to have a strategy to retain its top talent. They don't seem to recognize that the market is hot and you have to pay people to keep them. HR tries to substitute BS incentives for actual compensation - people see through that and move on. Finally, there's the dreaded Raytheon laptop. Good luck getting any work done on the company asset that's provided for this purpose because of all the spyware they install on the machines to monitor their employees.

1.0
Dec 8, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The pay and benefits are good, even though they're continually being cut back as companies race to the bottom. That's the only reason I stayed for so long, even though for years I dreaded getting out of bed on weekday mornings.

Cons

The environment encourages managers to devote themselves to political turf battles, in which employees are mere pawns. No promotion from within, either; when an opening exists they always bring in someone from outside who knows nothing.

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