RTX reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(7,776 total reviews)
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Christopher T. Calio

59% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

RTX has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,776 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The RTX employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Luft- & Raumfahrt, Verteidigung industry (3.6 stars).

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2.0
Aug 10, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Relative stability of the workforce as a consewqunece of world unrest.

Cons

Unoriginal work, highly political environment, uncompetitive compensation, management structure rooted in WWII and Cols War cultures. From my own personal experience and observation, compensation is poor and the company has no real interest in solving the problems. While employees were showing gaps of as much as 25% against industry averages, employees were receiving 2-3% increases. In general, Raytheon remains rooted to the past and to a culture that was successful in the 1960s. What is worse is they have kept the least employee friendly policies while eliminating the most friendly.

4.0
Aug 8, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent career opportunities and many different functional groups available. Also, there are locations all over the country, so in the event that you need to move for personal reasons or otherwise, that option is available. People are generally extremely friendly and laid-back, and Raytheon is quite good about balancing work and life. Hours are very flexible for the most part, and employees start out with 100 - 120 hours of PTO, progressing to 160 hours at 5 years of employment. Employee demographics are quite diverse and the workplace is pretty PC. Perhaps most important, salaries are very competitive, particularly for entry-level employees.

Cons

The average age of employees is over 50, which generates a lot of bureaucracy, and most processes are set in stone despite Raytheon's extremely active Six Sigma program. Also, entry-level employees often end up doing odd jobs here and there for some time while management decides where they should be placed. Many, many employees are ex-military, so if you have no military experience, you can sometimes have a hard time fitting in or understanding the lingo or culture. Despite competitive salaries, HR is rather non-negotiable. Acronyms are everywhere, and it can take weeks or months before you understand them all, and people throw them around like you should know them already.

4.0
Aug 7, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits packages. Good design on the Paid-Time-Off - you accumulate a certain amount each month based on number of years worked for the company. A "comfortable" place to work. Flexible time schedules. 40 hours a week of work - sometimes more. Very politically correct and allows for pride in supporting the soldiers without supporting the war necessarily.

Cons

Feels like monkey work after awhile. Unhappy with project status and focus of other people. More meetings than you can shake a stick at - sometimes more meetings than work. After a while, you'll feel like you're living in Dilbert the comic. You start working there and then suddenly its 10 years later and you're still there. Promotions are stuck with the old people - they have to retire or die before you'll have a shot. Luckily for you, thats likely to happen rather soon - old really means old in this case.

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