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Pratt & Whitney

Part of RTX

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Good company to start your engineering career, but move on after you complete your company-funded Masters degree. - Staff Engineer Pratt & Whitney Employee Review

2.0
23 Feb 2009
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Pros

The Employee Scholar Program is great.

Cons

Starting salaries are competitive, but raise pools are level with inflation. In most years, exceptional performers can expect raise differentiation of 2-3% over the raise pool. Engineers are "strongly encouraged" by management to work lots of uncompensated casual overtime and hours above 40 per week cannot be documented - which is illegal on government projects. Politics in many groups can be cutthroat - but that's true in many other companies. Staff turnover is high in comparison with other 2 companies where I've worked.

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5.0
4 Apr 2026
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Pros

Plenty of opportunity to move up within the company. Willing to pay for schooling through Raytheon's education program. Plenty of PTO and sick time.

Cons

I feel that the location I was at did not pay competitively.

1.0
6 Jun 2026
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Pros

Decent pay and good benefits.

Cons

Personnel reporting to me had apparently looked up my political affiliation (which I had never mentioned) and took exception to it by sabotaging work that I had supervised. This was well before 2022 - actually 2015-2016 (2022 is earliest review date I could select). I was just now remembering it. This polarized political posture was a function of the plant being near Harrisburg, PA which, at least then, was a somewhat "redneckish" area. I have never discussed my politics at work, so it seemed absurd of them to look up my party affiliation and take issue with it.

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