Any Supply Chain Employee - Supply Chain Manager RTX Employee Review

This review is for anyone who wants to work in supply chain only. I cannot speak to any other functional role and those roles are probably very different. Every thing a person does in supply chain here or at any other defense contractor is 100% regulated by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (F.A.R.), an insanely lengthly (maybe 1,000 pages?) regulation that gives you rules, policies and procedures to follow for every single procurement you do, like nothing I could ever have possibly imagined before starting to work here. The government audits the purchasing organizations constantly and the company has gone so overboard on these audits and is highly paranoid. The result of this behavior is that everyone in supply chain works in fear and there is an uncanny amount of bureaucracy and red tape everywhere. The internal compliance department is the final say for every major supply chain decision. No one outside of the internal compliance group wants to make a decision and own it. If you are a buyer you literally have to justify a purchase of even the tiniest micro-procurement. The inefficiencies that result of these regulations are unbelievable. The work environment is ultra risk averse and extraordinarily slow. Creativity is highly discouraged and managers seem to find ways to say no rather than think of reasons to say yes. Years of supply chain in the defense industry in my opinion would be a career killer unless you plan on staying in the defense industry forever, just because of how different the mentality is from normal, commercial businesses. It really is a terrible work environment and under no circumstance could I recommend this company or any defense company to anyone who has real career goals or ambitions. Don't waste your time. Don't get sucked in by the slightly better pay. 10 years from now you will be much better off at another company and probably enjoy your job a lot more. Money isn't everything.