Raytheon Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Raytheon full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – I like working here. It is challenging and rewarding. They have great contracts and many opportunities. I could not imagine working else where.

Cons – I really cannot write about any negatives. Sure sometimes folks have been on contracts where the clients can be unreasonable. But, you can always find another contract to work on

Advice to Senior Management – none

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Raytheon full-time for more than a year

Pros – The people are great -- genuinely friendly and team-oriented. I don't normally keep in touch as friends with the people I have worked with, after the job ends, but this time I have. The work is challenging as well.

Cons – The systems and processes are underdeveloped for a company of its size. The IT organisation has not been forward-looking, with the result that non-technical employees are far behind in the technologies that they can use. In other areas, there is too much duplicate work. For example, being able to make an online entry or request while still having to fill out forms and run around and have them signed. Very old fashioned.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Raytheon full-time for more than a year

Pros – Short working hours, and a mixture of friendly people. Opportunity to work across a number of sites

Cons – Bad culture, tight management structure, poor locations, minimal Uk presence

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Raytheon full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Work/Life balance fairly good, political (which works good in some ways). Worldwide locations - potential travel and re-location opportunities, Stable environment (dependant on US defence budget.) Good people from all ages who have worked for the company and good opportunity to make lifelong friends. Regular updates on the company, top notch communication on company's financial position, schedule and other updates from leadership. They have improved a lot on this, fine if you want to be in a basic paid job bringing home some extra money if you're the lower earner of the household

Cons – Management and supervision have zero technical knowledge, no financial incentives to work hard or exceed, very few promotions from academically capable and well liked individuals (these goes to the wrong people every time) management and leadership out of touch, too much time wasted on pointless behavioural boosting courses, and meetings about meetings, no actions executed quickly enough to be innovative, there are no young people and very little done to train to bring them in, or retain skilled staff eager and keen to do well for the company, managers/supervision who damage morale aren't dealt with properly and keep their jobs managing people for as long as they want, HR are way too business biased as opposed to operating in the interests of the employee and fairness, Ethics and quality only carried out when it suits, skills and knowledge not fully utilized from key staff members, too many people in the wrong job roles, benefits and percs reduced as profits increase year on year, benchmarking only used to justify lack of employee rewarding but promote and advertise themselves as 'innovative' and 'global leading' in the same sentance.

Advice to Senior Management – Clean house, properly train staff in classroom environments and get young enthusiastic employee's into recognizable college and Uni courses and fully support them via studying time, and engineering/project management time. Retain staff, reward staff, cut some of the red tape, get down with the workers, listen, and please just get rid of people who continually prop up as being troublesome and unprofessional, especially when they're in management positions managing people. Boost morale by any of these means, and allow the lowest of earners a chance to travel overseas and work for experience and perhaps to inspire them to want to do more for the company when they see the size of it. I've found that people who work their way up within a company are very valuable

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Raytheon

Pros – Friendly staff, Good working hours as per contract (but always end up working much more that what is stated in contract)

Cons – Management needs improvement, no overtime payment, unrealistic work hour expectation (weekends/late hours), work overload + will not take additional people due to budget constraints - so a single person ends up doing the work of 2 - 3 people. Micro-management, Micro-management, Micro-management

Advice to Senior Management – Set realistic deadlines/commitments, do not underquote and make employees work more hours without pay....

Former Employee – worked at Raytheon

Pros – Strong engineering heritage, good engineering practices and discipline

Cons – US seem to have lost faith in UK subsidiary. Senior management spend too much time focussing on pleasing the US, not concentrating on the UK customers. Very poor communication of strategy. Tendency for senior managers to shift blame downwards for their lack of competence.

Advice to Senior Management – Concentrate on the Customer, get a proper strategy, agree long term targets for P/L with the US then avoid micromanaging and short termism

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Raytheon full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good pay, steady income, regular raises, work is challenging and changes almost everyday.

Cons – No CONS to speak of.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Raytheon full-time for more than a year

Pros – In general Raytheon is a good company with good benefits. SW teams typically consist of very down to earth, intelligent, hard working individuals. Most of the leads and management are stern but understanding and easy to get a long with. The company has a strong work/life balance ethic and promotes healthy lifestyles and flexible work hours. There are also many different work opportunities available to employees so its not uncommon for employees to bounce around to different business groups and job titles if they choose.

Cons – As with most DODs in this time and age, the money is not stable. Often times, programs and projects will stop on short notice due to funding cuts. Layoffs and staffing reductions are a constant threat. Many employees find themselves being forced to bounce around to new tasks and projects on a month by month or even week by week basis because funding issues. Also be prepared for lots of process and documentation. SW engineers will spend as much time with process and documentation as they will coding (if not more time).

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Raytheon as an intern for more than a year

Pros – great company, loved it, great people

Cons – big company so some red tape and uselessness

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Raytheon full-time for less than a year

Pros – great culture, dedicated to protecting our troops and country

Cons – the work is can be very challenging

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company