Raytheon Employee Reviews for Software Engineer

"I've worked for Raytheon since 2018. I've found the product line that I've worked on the people that I've had the opportunity to work with have been great. I've had the abilty to grow and learn a lot from the people I worked with."

"Raytheon has so many programs and future contracts. It is easy to move around to programs of your interest."

"Pros: 1. Dynamic work environment 2. Friendly Co-workers 3. Great pay Cons: 1. No, opportunity to work as a team 2. Limited scope of experience like working with only a few languages"

"The company is good as a whole, with minor issues."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"I believe its a a good company. The believe in treating people fair and giving everyone the same opportunity to succeed."

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

"I beleive that you should be honest and tyr to sell your experinces and be open to learning more."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"I feel that I dont see the people in my company on a regular basis since I work offsite."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More communications othr thatn thru emails. Need more face to face."

"I've had a great experience with the company."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"The atmosphere was nice providing a great work environment. They take care of our needs!"

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

"My interview experience was great just be honest and up front."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Encourage each employee to seek management positions or higher positions"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"The compensation, location, benefits are all nice. The people are generally friendly, albeit low morale."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"It's not so much the company I dislike, but more so the career path (engineering/programming)."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I don't think I have enough experience to really say what I would do differently."

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"Interesting work, good people, lots of opportunities to try different things."

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

"Focus on results. You're more likely to get the job if you can demonstrate that you've got the skills necessary."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"It's very risk adverse, so I spend a lot of time doing boring, predictable work with boring, predictable results."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Try to figure out more fully what type of work people want to do and help them find ways to do it."

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!"

"In all a good place to work"

What do you like about working at Raytheon?

"There were many technical challenges that kept the job interesting."

What don't you like about working at Raytheon?

"No future because the management can not seen to win new contracts."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be more aggressive and search out other industries that we can provide service for."