Raytheon Employee Reviews for Project Engineer

"I worked for Raytheon for 4 years and greatly enjoyed my time there. It's a fast-paced environment that requires precision decision making and mistake-proof worth but overall is pretty satisfying to see the fruits your labor performs. With a strong-union presence on the manufacturing floor, it's important to be able to work with a variety of personalities."

"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."

"Great place to start a career!"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Growth potential, and diversity of assignments"

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

"Have a plan before going in because it is easy to get overwhelmed with the size of the company."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"Upper management competence"