RTX Senior Software Engineer reviews

4.3

93% would recommend to a friend

(159 total reviews)
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Christopher T. Calio

100% approve of CEO

87% positive business outlook

Senior Software Engineer employees have rated RTX with 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 159 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. RTX is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Luft- & Raumfahrt, Verteidigung industry (3.6 stars).

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159 reviews
2.0
Aug 3, 2010
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Pros

Work life balance is great. Get the job done, but on your schedule. Salary and benefits are good. Feel like your doing something meaningful.

Cons

Work with ancient technology. Can't upgrade, can't try out anything new. Advancement seems to be based on quotas, or time served, but certainly not on contribution. Encouraged to develop homogeneous code. New ideas are not appreciated. Spin a lot of time on framework code.

3.0
Jul 21, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits. There are a lot of nice people who work for Raytheon. The older engineers can offer much with thier experiences.

Cons

Difficult to move up. Older employees do not have nearly as many opportunies as the younger ones. Would like to see more innovation.

2.0
Jun 16, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Raytheon is a fairly good place to start your career. I was hired by recommendation from Software Engineering Fellow right out of college. I got great software engineering mentorship from this relationship. In general I think Raytheon is full of a mix of some bright and some average software engineers. Your mileage will vary like any company. The key is getting onto the right team.

Cons

The culture is driven by project management. Our particular group was a integration COTS driven team. There is no innovation at the company in my eyes. Sometimes schedules were bid aggressively and good engineers pulled the company through by putting in 50-60 hours a week for months. I certainly felt this pressure on several occasions. Hard to balance work life when this happens. Also, project managers who don't understand software, arn't very technical, and play the office politics were fairly annoying.

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