Working at Raytheon in El Segundo, CA: 108 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in El Segundo, CA Area

"Raytheon is MUCH too involved in processes. The idea seems to be that people who are untrained or new to the business can do the work just by following the processes. Of course, this fails, and the answer is to implement more processes. The result of this has been huge amounts of hassle, red-tape, and waiting for others. This results in the new-to-the-work workers being confused, and the knowledgeable workers being stymied in their efforts, leading to lots of frustration and attrition."

"A good company with wonderful products and mission. It is a company willing to add capabilities and improve its competency. The major barrier to make it a great company is hindered by their ability to accelerate cycles in career path clarity and promotion of the younger talents, they would be a very attractive place to work with."

"If you want to work in California then Raytheon is NOT the place for you."

"I've worked for Raytheon for 9 1/2 years. I started off as a tech and worked my way up the as a supervisor there. Being with that company has taught me a lot."

"Good. The company is affected by funding issues, however it is a good company to work for. Many opportunities here but lack of funding is a real issue.I generally do not opine on companies, as they have their challenges and opportunities, and while I have very strong opinions on how they should be run, opining like this is not a good use of my time. I generally approve all companies I work for"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Great company and benefits. Educational reimbursements. Most leaders are very helpful."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Take initiative , research everything and keep up with the language and org charts."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Within the various functions the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing at times. There seems to be a languange barrier which tends to cause meetings to be unsucessful at times. Other functions tend to point fingers when something goes wrong. There is a huge gap of old vs new... people who have worked for 20 plus years are the know it alls and people who have less than 10 years are viewed as new kid on the block. Those eligible for retirement never retire causing mid career employees to stay where they are due to the economy and other factors."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Possibly a stronger knowledge transfer program. Younger folks have the challenge of being respected by the older generation since they lack the massive amount of years in the company."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"I like the culture of respect at the company and the people are nice."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure you are in a good strong group that has stability."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"The company is burning out its employees. It is too slow moving and there are a lot of red-tape and processes. Promotions are hard to come by unless you have a strong circle. Career movement is based more on seniority rather than performance."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make the culture and environment more about results rather than seniority."

"Positive environment, good people, dedicated"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"The people, the product, friendly atmosphere are tops in the field"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You'll like the people and the perks. Uncertainty is the bad side."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Unsure of the future causes cutbacks and layoffs, not fun"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Value their resoures and give rewards to those who go the extra mile"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Excellent pay and benefits, reasonable commute, the few intelligent people who weren't scared away or laid off."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If politics is your passion and you have no conscience that would stop you from walking in at the end of a project and claiming credit for all of it, your opportunities for advancement are limitless! But if you have any integrity at all, run away as fast as you can!"

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"An environment where politics and bureaucracy dominate and employees are treated like garbage. Managers were always brought in from the outside, sending the message that there is no career advancement. Those who do advance do so by claiming credit for the work of others. Too much of the work is about satisfying the whims of bosses rather than what's useful or good for the company. A lot of wasted effort."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Create a culture that encourages innovation and teamwork rather than politics and back-stabbing."

"Overall, this was a good company, I was there over 26 years."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"People overall were nice. Goals were set and were reasonable to achieve."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be flexible to change, embrace change, they are down sizing slightly. They definitely love new ideas on ways to improve processes. They don't mind you questioning the porcess but keep it to a minimum. They don't like complete resistance or your opinion on why so much detail is necessary."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"There were some folks that push compliancy as a scare tactic to fix problems which I thought that there was a better way to get things done."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Remove the scare tactic when issues need to be fixed immediately. Don't throw out names of high position individuals as ways to influence people to get things done on time."

"Most of my time working at Raytheon was spent looking for work to do."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"I liked the flexibility in my schedule, my co-workers, and the salary was pretty good."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be proactive in doing follow-up calls with the recruiters. That's how I got the job."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Most of my time was spent going to the different managers offices looking for work or billable hours. To stay off the over head charge # I would often have to do/try to find busy-work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The need to Organize their projects better as well as assigning different projects for people instead of having them try to go and find their own."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Amount of paid time off. Ability to work on variety of tasks."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Show the amount of projects that you have. Know how to talk about the details."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Projects are not organized enough. Manangers are only worried about reporting to their own manager, instead of making the project more efficient."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus more on using more innovative processes and techniques. Old school methods do work effective enough."

"Great opportunity for full career development."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Wide variety of work. Chalangeing and rewarding. Management looks out for their workers."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"I prefere the west coast, however, I may be biassed."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"I had to commute to El Segundo, near LAX. When you add in the commute, it made for a long day of work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep the respect up for the employees, we really appreciate it."

"Solid company. Not a lot of growth opportunities, but stable"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Solid company that you did not have to worry about financing and capital"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Great company to start a career with. However, not a long-term company."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Lack of overall opportunities. Concerned more about head count and diversity than talent."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Incorporate a more inclusive approach with real growth opportunities for all employees."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"This is a good company to work for in term of benefit and pay"

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Too much people for little of works. senior engineers have most priority in term of work"