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

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 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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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 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 2006 and it is a wonderful work environment that provides and opportunity for growth."

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