Working at Raytheon in Tucson, AZ: 63 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Tucson, AZ Area

"Great place to work, treat employees world class."

"Not a bad job if you're looking to work a 9-5 for 30 years."

"Raytheon has been a great company to work for. Unfortunately the engineering management has embarked on an ill advised approach to improving workforce capability by emphasizing leadership over technical expertise of individual contributors. They are definitely not focused on employee retention."

"I worked for Raytheon Missile Systems for 7 years an was laid-off last year."

"I've worked for Raytheon since 2006 and it is a wonderful work environment that provides and opportunity for growth."

"Raytheon is a good company to work for. My overall experience there has been positive. I would choose to continue my career there if they had an open position in the location that I am relocating to."

"I've worked for Raytheon since 2009 and have found it a very satisfying technical place to work at. However my work often got bogged down in processes which were not always fully defined."

"Raytheon Missile Systems IT was historically a leader in innovation under prior leadership. However, severe pressures to reduce the overhead budget of the business led to the consolidation of business units and transition of many IT functions to Corporate IT positions. This adversely impacted the organization's ability to serve specific business needs and led to indiscriminate reductions of headcount in critical skill positions. Resources are not being managed effectively by current leadership."

"Great company to work for, smart people, good leadership. The main drawback is how R&D money has been going done year after year, and also how much of our business is government related and the funding is lowering for the defense industry."

"This company is stuck in the past and is not willing to change. They are satisfied with being a large and sluggish company."

"Benefits were good and educational opportunities were great. The people were terrific, but management was just that, no real leadership."

"Work environment at Raytheon in Tucson is, simply said, ugly and horrible. Huge open noisy areas with dozens of computers with no privacy, windows, or internet access. On the top of that, they keep rooms ice cold so we had to wear jackets and winter caps all the time while inside. Managers will spin and blame on you their faults. Sometimes, they do not even explain what exactly we are supposed to do, so you have to keep asking same questions over and over. Every day I was at useless meetings. One thing all the managers at Raytheon are very good at is making Powerpoint presentations. Upper and mid level management are the same people that just rotate every 1-1.5 years. Performance reviews are designed to discourage hard working employees. Raytheon is not for anyone who is ambitious, or young, achievement driven engineer, or anyone white. They are so into affirmative action which is beyond any normal reasons."

"Raytheon was a great experience that enabled me to begin developing my career in new and innovative ways. I thoroughly enjoyed the company of others while working at this facility and will never regret working for such an outstanding company."

"Large company. Good pay. Lots of good people there. Great engineering tools. Can be hectic working on programs. I worked there 13 years. I found it difficult to move up. it's not enough to do a good job."

"Good company, good management, good people, good organization and resources."