RTX reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(7,778 total reviews)
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Christopher T. Calio

60% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

RTX has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,778 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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8K reviews
4.0
Apr 22, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

9-80 for salaried workers, not the hourly, which is every other Friday off. In some cases can negotiate it to every other Monday off instead. High pay. Bench strength; nearly always there is backup, meaning few people have 'all' their work waiting for them after a week of vacation. Is pretty good for a Fortune 500 company. They try to promote workers with people skills, not necessarily the best worker--causes resentment but leads to better managerial skills in the first few mgmt levels.

Cons

Middle managers only one level up can cancel 9-80 when they want to, for as long as they want. One incident of slow response to a floor problem and some managers cancel it for months. Valuing 'get along, go along' over everything else means there is no innovation; the nail that sticks up gets pounded down. When there is a bad manager or bad engineer, they often punish the careers of the first 3-4 people to complain rather than the perpetrator. Have seen a whole dept. sign a petition to fire their bad boss or they will quit en masse, and the manager was simply moved to another dept, not fired. Within a year, there was talk of doing the same petition there.

1.0
Jul 14, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible schedule Work life balance New location coming Perks, gym, 401k Lots of technolgies maybe a little too much Lots of upward mobility as far as SW Architects

Cons

Ratheon IIS Garland/Richardson As a new engineer I was frequently degraded, belittled, ignored (in other words the culture allowed workplace bullying). No mentorship, no morale. Because of this I left this job because i could not take it anymore. Do not apply for the raytheon iis unless you have very thick skin as an new person coming on board. Management has no transparency and the culture is very self-centered for the most part. No transparency Management No Mentorship Culture allows workplace bullying Onboarding of new engineers is lacking Training is very minimal Way too many technologies being used decreaseing productivity

1.0
Feb 2, 2015

Any Supply Chain Employee

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company provides a lot of work/life balance, no complaints there at all. Barely ever work more than 40-45 hours per week and the company provides 3 weeks vacation to start and everyone gets Dec 24th to Jan 1st off in addition to regular vacation. Pay is also very good. Opportunities to advance do exist but in this regard it seems that it matters more who you know than how well you actually perform. However, the company is very accepting of diversity and I don't think it is just window dressing.

Cons

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.

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