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

"The job started great but fell downhill when my boss changed."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"The job had interesting problems for me to work on. For the frist 5 years, it was a mental playground"

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

"Be sure you like Tucson, AZ before you move there. It's in the middle of the desert and is an acquired taste."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Enough of my coworkers were bad programmers that once it was revealed that my code broke less than theirs, I was asked to do menial, boring tasks like retrofitting unit testing code into existing projects."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"There were some people who were promoted that absolutely did not deserve their promotions. Their rise lead to a loss of business for our department and employee dissatisfaction."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"The ability to seek other job opportunities within the company."

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

"Be wise and get all that is promised in writing."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Raytheon made me feel like a number, not a person."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"There should be less middle management. More individual contributors hired."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"experience, pay check, flexibility, worked with my school schedule, paid vacation"

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

"Great opportunity for a short-term internship or a long time salary position. However, my internship was longer than most and I simply ran out of things to do."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"I would often finish my work early and correctly. With no changes, they rarely had another project waiting for me. I often spent time doing meaningless tasks or trying to find something to do. Due to the high security nature of the material I could not just go do something - I had to wait for to be assigned."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More contact with employees, better communication, more respect, available work when mine was completed early"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"The technology is cutting edge for flight vehicles. An employee has a vast set of opportunities and jobs that can be pursued."

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

"Ask questions about job mobility, opportunities, and the location. Ask to speak with less senior engineers to understand climate."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"The company is very large and, at times, very inefficient. Passionate people may find the culture slow."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Change the development model and provide agile, high-risk/high-reward opportunities for passionate people."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"I was let go from Raytheon in March of this year. I am unemployed."

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

"Raytheon is a huge company, there is plenty of opportunity to learn and be led."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Tucson is a city for a more established individual (married couples,retirees). I missed the city features and family."

"Amazing place to gain technical experience"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"The diversity of things you can work on - its the main reason why I've been here for 10+ years."

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

"Great place to start a career, I have no regrets."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Growth opportunities are lacking and the location of the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Could probably cut down on the amount of required training."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"The upside of working at Raytheon: you get to work on challenging and important products for our nation's defense. The technical rigor you learn will be useful inside and outside the company. Raytheon's diversified portfolio means that employment security isn't overly sensitive to individual programs being canceled."

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

"If you're a young engineer fresh out of college it might not be bad to spend a few years working at Raytheon to get some real world experience working on sophisticated products. Just don't let yourself get trapped. Get the knowledge, build your resume, and run off to a place where you can be rewarded for your contribution."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Raytheon is incredibly, unbelievably bureaucratic, even Kafkaesque. Some of that is just the industry: government defense customers expect things to be done in a bureaucratic way, and a rigorous process is warranted given the life-or-death criticality of the systems. That said, the attitude is pervasive throughout the organization even when it's counterproductive. There is little room for creativity or defining your own role. You will be a tiny cog in a big machine."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Raytheon needs to stop just talking about valuing their employees, and actually start doing it. The company does well at providing the things that don't take effort, just a bit of money, like good benefits. However, when it comes to things like career advancement on a non-management technical track, or just being able to influence the way things are done, the individual employees are left out in the cold. The internal employee opinion survey has been echoing this sentiment for the last 5 or more years. It's time to do something about it!"

"Great place to work for, and proud to be a part of this company."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Great products and very nice place to work for, and give me great motivation because the products are helping defend our country."

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

"Be yourself and prepare well, also this company need you to have clean background for the clearance."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"None, and I can not think of anything bad about this company at all."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management's style was in the transition from old to new, so it could cause little friction between the old guards against the young people."

"Great opportunities and experience"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Variety of different departments and disciplines to work for. Good co-workers."

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

"Advanced degrees are typically required for specific job applications. Prior military experience is helpful."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Limited opportunities for advancement, would like to relocate to another region of the country."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide more mentoring and training opportunities for employees to be able to branch out."

"Excruciatingly Frustrating"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Its important work, challenging, high-tech, cool products, and most of the co-workers are great folks."

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

"The Defense Industry isn't for everyone... upward mobility is slow, be careful what you wish for."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Too much in-breeding, lousy quality, disorganized, too many conflicting cultures, dumb-ass politics, incompetent Program Managers, P/M too powerful, conflict of interests, unethical behavior in mid-management"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Fire more of managment. Hire from outside the industry. Company needs to take responsibility for their own designs and processes and work towards COTS... spend some time in telecom, an analogous industry to see how real quality and efficiencey works."

"My with Raytheon Missile System was great."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"I like working at Raytheon missile System because of the career opportunites."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"I do not like the salary increase or promotion process."

"Great company to work for."