Raytheon Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Excellent"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"THe last best American Generation of Managers/mentors I could have ever dreamed off. I consider it my ultimate blessing to be given the opportunity to work for Mr Howard Hughes Aircraft Co. Older manager are not only very competent, confident, but also had a mentoring, fatherlike mentality not found anywhere in the world ( Ihave been in 88 countries mind you). Professional atmosphere, human are treated like human and teamwork in the 2nd best after my US Marines experience."

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

"Be honest, ask fo rthe chain of command and pick the group with the oldest manager possible, they have integrity."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"With big contracts coming in , hiring was rushed and management did not carefully pick new generation of managers resulting in a slow change to destruction of the once wonderful truly American company."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Co-workers and management were generally likable, if not the easiest to work with/for. Wages are more than reasonable, provided you have even a small skill in managing money. Benefits are outstanding. Tuition assistance and a huge number of training and educational programs will really benefit a driven individual willing to seek them out. This particular job represented a fulfilling variety of duties ensuring that I always felt challenged, and I was granted a great deal of freedom to creatively handle these."

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

"Easy to get in, dedication will bring you through training to your first military job. My BEST advice in this day and age is to give serious thought to the military job field that you choose. Don't pick the equivalent of a college philosophy degree and find yourself unable to get a job 4,8, or 20 years later. Your basic veteran is a dime a dozen and that status won't help by itself, Nuclear technicians and aviation mechanics get those civilian jobs. The military is the first part of your lifelong career, it will never be all of it. Figure out from day one what you can do while you are serving to increase your marketability after you leave."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"The overall job security in which the military is known for seems to be heavily eroding with recent force reduction measures and consequences. An outstanding achiever will relatively not be worried, but anyone in that second tier or lower has good cause. This year, I saw a few of my peers forced out for being unable to get promoted within their required timeframe (good Marines who faced an awfully competitive selection process). As for the actual position, I truly cannot recall any other period in my service where I dealt with such a blur of tasks, they avalanched down faster than I was able to organize and complete them. Our training department was also responsible for most administrative/logistical duties concerning company operations, and nearly all types of work that couldn't be easily pigeon-holed into another section."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Dedicate more thought to the excessive turnover in some of our positions and the problems this situation brings."

"It was a great place to work."

"Excellent culture and co-workers, but lacking in growth opportunities."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Initially I was drawn to the opportunity to learn and build my knowledge of radar and the defense sector."

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

"No, not really. Just be yourself, and be open and honest."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"The defense sector is dying, there is minimal, if any, money available for development work. Everything is now mostly contract sustainment."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be proactive in finding your teams ability to find tasking to avoid the charging of overhead budget from departments which thereby lowers educational budgets"

"Good place to work."