RTX reviews

A def culture problem in El Segundo, too many levels of mid and upper level management making incompetent decisions, turnover, old school and lack creativity in the good ole boy network(s). Unfortunately, favortism, nepotism and rule by an iron fist in some depts still apply here. Recognition or promotion only applies if your nose isnt where its supposed to be. Respect... talk, talk, talk, and no...some just keep on talking. Ethics...more talk and not enough real behavior modification. Profit metrics and who gets the RBI are the key drivers for programs. Any room for customer? Another poster commented on lack of eye contact or recognition in the hallways, what, do i dress funny? not up to your standard to at least acknowledge ones very existance? The wasted tax payer money and failed X-Lounge playroom, (the Google Experiment) has the same people "playing" while the rest of us working stiffs are ruled by militant management who are just looking for the opportunity to catch anyone "goofing off". Now that the GAO money well is running dry, the products are suffering, the people are suffering..but corp profits, RBI's and cash are up!, so many of you are sitting on a overhead charge. If you are assigned to a successful program, good luck, someone higher up will def cram their way up onto your turf and steal your success thunder, thats the Raytheon Way of doing business. Stressful.....the number of ambulances/fire dept visits, sudden deaths and illnesses, must be having an affect on the bottom line, higher insurance premiums and OSHA recordables. Lastly, young people, begin your career here, take as much knowledge as you can and move on to another where you will be valued, respected and treated like you are human, unless you like to be mean, "mean people are more successful than nice people"--so the story goes. The older crowd is unfortunately stuck waiting to claim payout for their years, if they survive that is.

Where to begin? There are many employees there that are just coasting. Eventually others have to pick up the slack. There are also many older employees that are hanging on until they can retire, but their ability to keep up with the workload and younger crowd is a major problem. Plus Raytheon hangs on to them no matter what if they've been there for 35 year and do nothing, because they have put in the time. Or so it feels. Degree's are very important at Raytheon, without an Engineering degree your doomed. It doesn't matter how hard you work, if you come in on weekends, stay late and get positive annual reviews. Also success of the program you're on doesn't matter either. Other programs could be put on hold, terminated and co-workers with more year will be shifted to your program creating a log jam. Eventually something has to give and layoffs follow. Training is poor. Raytheon wants you to do it on your own time. The technology is pretty dated. I saw many young and fresh employees come to Raytheon just to end up being bored and complaining about how they're not using anything they learned in college. Management can be distant, some are only concerned with pleasing their boss and not their employees. They do tend to play favorites at time. Some managers are not truly meant to be managing others, they are engineers and frankly don't have the people skills it takes to actually manage a section. Raytheon though forces them to become section managers for little to no financial increase and added work load. Six Sigma is a joke at Raytheon. Just get it done so you can get you annual 3.0 percent increase. People sleep at their desks ( I use to walk in on my section mgr sleeping and would tip-toe out ), sleep during code reviews, sleep during functionality testing with even the customer being right there. It's amazing and completely pathetic. They've gone completely over board on "Diversity". It is important I agree, but at some point in the past Raytheon must have been burnt by the government and now they go over and above on diversity. You can a long safe career if you fall into the right "category" at Raytheon's HR offices. These are just some of the bad aspects at Raytheon that I experienced there during my ten years and two stints with RTSC and NCS. I wouldn't recommend heading there after college.