I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at RTX (Woburn, MA) in Apr 2009
Interview
Raytheon is difficult to get into to from the outside looking in. A lot of employees are referrals or family members who got their son/daughter in. That being said, I got luck by applying online and having a recruiter that had connections to my high school/college. The initial phoone call lasted 15 minutes.
The next day I was brought in to interview with 3 separate people (my potential manager, co-worker and another manager). The interviews lasted a few hours. The next day or so, the recruiter called and said that the positiion I interviewed for was placed on hold, but they liked me and wanted me to try out for a different position. I repeated the same process again with 3 other people in another Raytheon location and got the offer for that role within a week.
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Question 1
No difficult questions. The interview was more about talking about the job and my background.
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at RTX (Aurora, CO) in Jan 2013
Interview
Applied on their website, contacted by a recruiter about 3 weeks later for an interview. Interviewed a few days after that. One interview with a tech lead, 85% discussing experience, 10% technical, 5% just for fun talk. Very relaxed and enjoyable. Received offer about 2 weeks later. I've only done commercial-sector work and, compared to it, there's a lot of paper work involved.
Quick trip consisted of meeting individually with 6 different engineers. Most of the interview time was spent getting to know me personally with little technical discussion. What technical discussion occurred was primarily abstract. The interview process took approximately 8 hours. One major issue was the fact that it took over 2 months after the interview for them to get back to me with any information.
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Question 1
Various questions focused on analyzing far field antenna data.