RTX reviews

The advertised culture and values are not what is actually put into practice at Raytheon. Policies and ethics are rarely supported and enforced by management when it is not convenient. People are not held accountable for poor performance in their primary roles. The hiring practices are terrible and this leads to extremely high attrition/turnover. A typical day was very frustrating; everything is priority. When everything is priority, nothing is priority. Management seldom supports the right decision based upon quality or ethics and usually goes with what has the least cost and schedule impact. It is my experience that this is because on the FEOTB (Front End of the Business), projects and contracts are typically underbid purposely to win them or get them approved and rarely have the proper people bidding them or writing/reviewing the BOEs (Basis of Estimates). This leads to middle management being in a perpetual state of committing to unrealistic goals (over-promising and under-delivering) that most of the team doesn't support. People are not held accountable for poor performance in their primary roles. The hiring practices are terrible, and this leads to extremely high attrition/turnover. It has become a social justice DEI driven culture as well which has led to hiring and role assignments of unqualified people instead of those with the experience and skills who merit them. Another con is that far too often, impractical and unjustified authority is given to almost all core functions (operations, finance, safety, security) except engineering and quality when it comes to making a critical decision which impacts hardware or the production process. This leads to poorly implemented solutions or, worse yet, the incorrect corrective action all in the name of saying "we did something" to appease leadership.

I've been at Raytheon for 2.5 years. I was forced to hire as a Software Engineer I even though I had 2 years of experience, and was told there would be opportunity for promotions. After those 2.5 years, I still have a salary almost exactly that of what I started with, and have not been promoted at all. I now have a total of 4 years experience and I am still a junior software engineer.