Biased and incompetent management - Senior Principal Scientist RTX Employee Review

2.0
Apr 5, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Pay and benefits are comparable or better than industry standard. Highly diverse employee base. Work is of high value to society and the country.

Cons

No training and incompetent functional management result in poor performance on contracts. Management is very biased and bases promotions and raises on how well they like an employee instead of skills or performance. Most contracts are of a classified nature, which adds additional hinderance to career growth. There is no job stability and engineers are treated with very little respect. They're considered "labor" and "expense items" instead of the professionals behind successful capture and execution of programs.

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