Working at Raytheon in Marlborough, MA: 12 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Marlborough, MA Area

"I worked with Raytheon for over 10 years in various roles. They provide good benefits with interesting work. Navigating your way to promotions can be challenging, but in my experience, management is generally constructive and supportive."

"Great place to work with great teammates. The processes can be slow and time consuming."

"It was a good opportunity."

"It's a fine place to work although a recent reorganization has prevented my chances for advancement."

"The coworkers at the company are great but the culture is limiting"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"The people and environment are relaxed and accommodating to a good work life balance."

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

"As a college hire, the experience is very good but growth is limited."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"The management is very bureaucratic and will only promote based off years served."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Encourage and reward productivity and achievement rather than solely longevity"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Close to home, regular paychecks, got object-oriented development experience, some of the people were cool."

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

"Raytheon is a great place to work if (a) you're just starting out and want to get a masters degree, or (b) you prefer to stay with one company for your whole career. It's usually a good place for a good paycheck and job stability."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"In my department we were fixing 20 year old code. We were constrained to old equipment, old languages, old development methodologies. I felt like I was training to be a veterinarian for dinosaurs."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would make project schedules more doable, work hours more flexible"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"The work is usually interesting. There are opportunities to move to new projects in new domains."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Depending on what you work on, the amount of process can be overbearing. There's too much focus on short-term goals. There's very little focus on employee development and keeping employee skillsets current."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would put much more emphasis on long term development of company skills and technologies."

"Really bad management"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"I wanted exposure to other things other than finances. I wanted more engineering/science based projects. This was a good place to start."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get better managers that will attract projects. Remove managers when they fail. Remove the six sigma project requirements. It's silly and practically a waste of time. Recognize folks on the projects they work on (which is what matters in the long run), not on what kind of six sigma projects they have done."

"Don't work for Raytheon"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"In my one year at the company, I worked in five different groups. So I was given a variety of challenging projects. But you are always interviewing for the next project. I never really got to know other people in the group."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Long hours (60 hour work weeks), unreasonable schedules. a nightmare.On my last project; my supervisor didn't like the way I wrote my C++ code, even though it worked, and matched the UML model; I then asked my cube mate how he would have coded it; when I followed his advice; which my supervisor still didn't like. My supervisor then wrote a negative review on me. Also I was being asked to work on a number of side projects which were supposed to be done on my own time. The project schedule weren't close to reasonable. Early in my career I was taught how to estimate times, at Raytheon I was told by my section manager that the times were based on what Raytheon had bid on the project and I was supposed to work as many hours it took to complete the task. I was also told that it would take years to establish myself there. Prior to working at Raytheon I worked as a contractor for 10+ years, at the majority of my clients I was well respected by my supervisors and coworkers from the first day."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Treat people as human beings, from day one."

"I wish I had a chance to work there again."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Opportunity to work on the most advanced technologies."

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

"Demonstrate an ability to adhere to protocol, even if company procedures don't seemlike the most efficient way to get something done."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"A lot of administrative paperwork."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The company needs to recommit resources to basic research."