Raytheon Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Great people, typical defense bureaucracy."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Great coworkers with good departmental camaraderie. Interesting product, with lots of opportunities to delve into technical details."

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

"Be aware of the product lines and what you will actually be working on when you start."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Procurement of engineering hardware is hampered by typical defense bureaucracy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Configuration management needs to be cleaned up and completely replaced with a more capable computerized system."

"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?

"Had some honest bosses, and was unionized. Test procedures faulty or insufficient."

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

"This Raytheon was union, therefore the best or worst all paid the same, at layoff time new people out, old deadwood kept."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"All previous comments not withstanding, Raytheon is one of the best companies to work for and in how they treat their people."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Bosses could pick favorites to spy or non-favorites to intimidate. Union kept them in check."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Challenging technical tasks and interesting work, along with great co-workers"

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

"Focus on teamwork skills and technical expertise related to position"

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Process-related activities can take up valuable time from actual development"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Cut through some red tape and streamline processes for efficiency"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"The people I worked with were pretty laid back. Also good perks."

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

"Nice people. Veeeery corporate environment. Don't work there unless you're willing to sell your soul to DoD."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"They never gave me a job to do. I felt idle for the entire couple weeks I worked there."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I was a contractor. They apparently expect much more of the contractors, but they never gave me a project to work on. I would have given new hires work more immediately."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Enjoyed the people working in Antarctica 8 months out of the year."

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

"No, apply and see if you get hired. It isn't for everyone."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"8 months away from home was not ideal for me."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep the deployment down to 6.5 months a year and no more."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"The variety of people and groups that I interact with."

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

"Be willing to put in the extra effort to get an average review"

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"The lack of real growth opportunity across the engineering directorate"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The cost of investing in your employees is well worth it"

"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."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Raytheon offers a wide variety of positions all around the world."

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

"Be prepared to answer questions about your previous jobs and what you want and your skills and accomplishments and weaknesses."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"In an effort to spread information around to all people working on a task, management likes to schedule daily meetings where everyone talks about what they've been doing (in too much detail). I routinely lose 20%+ of my day to wasted meetings where I only learn from, perhaps, 3 minutes of the meeting"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"When things start to go bad with the schedule, more meetings will not turn things around."

"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."

"Slow death by paperwork"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"It was a salary increase from my other job, I got to use some of my APICS training"

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

"Great opportunities if you can put up with the big company mentality."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Too much politics and unnecessary paperwork; rude managers (except my boss)"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Streamline the operations, reduce unnecessary middle managers, cross train employees"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"I enjoy my teammates, the cooperative environment, benefits, work schedule,"

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

"Know how to talk up your good qualities, doesn't matter what the job is, as long as you can talk..."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Work is not difficult, though it can be very involved. Sometimes it seems like no one in this company can do their job correctly, and it falls on my group to fix the issues. My bosses are micro-managers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"As a supervisor, especially if there aren't any problems with my team, let them do their job, don't micromanage."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Learned a lot about phased array antenna systems, controlled my own projects."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"This is a military company. Same problem: if you did not have a project number, you were out of a job."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I cannot comment. Sedco systems was sold to Raytheon and moved away."