Raytheon Employee Reviews for Multidisciplined Engineer

"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."

"Most of my time working at Raytheon was spent looking for work to do."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"I liked the flexibility in my schedule, my co-workers, and the salary was pretty good."

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

"Be proactive in doing follow-up calls with the recruiters. That's how I got the job."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Most of my time was spent going to the different managers offices looking for work or billable hours. To stay off the over head charge # I would often have to do/try to find busy-work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The need to Organize their projects better as well as assigning different projects for people instead of having them try to go and find their own."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep employees doing their jobs but also work with them to grow into other positions."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Become more in touch with employees on a professional level to identify the over achievers."

"Positive review"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"I had the freedom to get things done (minimal supervision, authority) and that worked well for my supervisor and my customers."

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

"Too broad a question to answer."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"They decided to outsource my position to CSC!"

"The company has a lot of potential for career advancement, provided the management you work under is willing to support your requests for assistance in advancement."