Pros
Best reasons to work for Raytheon….From what I have seen and other people’s word of mouth they do start new grads at a decent pay scale (myself being on) I cannot complain. The 9/80 work shift we do is not too bad either getting a 3 day weekend every other week. The benefits are really great and offer a wide variety of options for everyone from single to family plans and a competitive 401k option.
Cons
Some things that could be changed……Again being a new hire I feel like (at least in my area in NCS) that I was not shown the ropes and just throw into the mix. I didn’t get a full this is your job, duties, talk to these people if you have questions because quite frankly when I was hired my manager said we don’t know where to stick you. That just screamed to me then why did you hire me? Even after being here for almost 6 months I don’t like my work and repeated attempts to talk to my manager about it have gone no where. My days and months have been relegated to tasks being told to go on Google and research things or to redo power point presentation, and attend meetings about projects no one wants to explain to me, and even though im sitting at the table I get ignored like I’m an empty chair. I feel like I have no substance in my work, and no one will give you a full picture of what your working on. I am on 2 projects and still don’t have any idea what exactly the goal of the project is and what were trying to do. Even asking the team leads they can’t exactly explain what the project is and the goals are. Is this a flow down problem or do people just not care and are collecting paychecks? Senior Engineers discount you and don’t give you the time of day. Emails go unanswered for questions you need to ask people, and once you track the person down they act upset you are bothering them. Everyone seems entrenched here and I hear groans and complaints when I walk down the halls form people who have been here for years and now hate the place. No one seems happy and projects just take forever to get going or off the ground. The ideas and opinions of the Senior Management are the gospel truth and if the project some top guy dreamed is not going well or the idea is crap you just best better clam up and try to solve the problem of fitting a square peg in a round hole because he said its possible, promised it to the customer, and he now has nothing to do with it and is sitting on the beach drinking a margarita. As a new hire entry level employee I was excited to hopefully join a company to grow my career with and possible grow old with the company as well (I’m young and loyal. My last job from I stayed there over 6 years and was treated like crap and had to deal with the public in retail…..need I say more) Here sitting at a desk for 9 hours a day with noting to do is just like Office Space or Dilbert, except not funny. I cannot wait to be off, and dread going to work in the mornings. In the past 6 months I have done less at work than I do in my own life on the weekends. I am energetic, hands on, get the problem solved and move to the next task type of guy, and I feel like this company crawls at a snails pace and no one wants to help move it along. Everything takes forever and it feels like weekly meetings are just a rehash of the past months status of nothing getting done and people saying a breakthrough is almost here. To sum it up me personally as a new hire I am disappointed that I probably will not be calling Raytheon my permanent home as I had initially thought. There benefits to working her and starting out to get experience, but I will be hard pressed on how to answer the question at my next job when they ask “what did you do exactly?” Especially since my 6 months have accounted for hours of Google searches, Power point rewrites, and pointless meetings.
