RTX reviews

Management has no desire to actually manage employees. Their goal is to hand off a task with zero preparatory work to make the employee successful. The employee is expected to dig up the information to do their job.They expect new employees to have years of experience in the defense industry and provide little to no training. Also a mindset of everything is classified making it difficult to obtain basic information to do your job. Management then complains when employees are ineffective on the job. Many facilities are a revolving door with new hires leaving in disgust after 3 - 4 years working there. Very little opportunity for advancement, section heads are selected from those the dept manager has a long term friendship with. It is rare for an employee to be selected to be a section head due to department managers surrounding themselves with fellow employees they have worked with on projects for many years. This environment fosters a cut throat relationship with all the other employees. Don't be surprised if your fellow employees stab you in the back in order to gain favor with management.

There are many. - Mind numbingly bureaucratic. Upper management told a room of people that Raytheon doesn't remove or alter bureaucratic policies, they just add new ones (in response to inefficiencies). - Outside of a cost of living raise, you will never see a raise of any significance. Managers are commended for keeping their employees' salaries down. - Every 3 to 5 months you will go through a "justify your job" exercise because they love lay-offs. You'll have to create lists and spreadsheets that describe, in detail, what you do and why they shouldn't fire you. Rather than raise revenue they cut costs. - Whatever they tell you about paying for education, know it's not true. Well, it depends on your job. Engineers will get a lot but anyone that is "indirect" won't even get $600 towards a community college accounting class. - "One Raytheon" is a myth and you'll actually negotiate terms and bad payment plans with other Raytheon sites you do business with. - Because they operate with a skeleton crew, if you take more than a few days off you'll be told to cut it short or work on your vaca. If it's a step in the right direction for your career, fine, take it but know they will try to get rid of you as soon as you become too expensive or an intern can do your job. Use the experience to move on after a few years, it's just a means to an end.