Pay and seniority lower than comparable jobs at other companies. - Senior Systems Engineer I Raytheon Employee Review

1.0
2 May 2020
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Pros

Pay checks arrive on time.

Cons

I joined in 2019 and have been there about a year. They will stiff you on salary and job grade if you don't have the right information, and they will lie about the right information. They have both job titles and job grades. The corporate recruiter told me that salary for G08/Senior Engineer I was 90-100k. That was a total lie. Know that job grade G08 (Senior ______ Engineer I) is what they offer to people fresh out of a PhD program with zero years of professional experience. Salary band for G08/Sr I is 75k-130k. Sr II = G09 Principal = G10 Sr Principal = G11 Job requisitions ask for about +2 years of experience for each increase in job grade. PhD ~ 6 years of experience. My previous job grade was also Senior, but at that company, that meant PhD + several years of experience and also a much higher salary. Benefits actually kind of suck. My portion of a doctor's visit fee for a regular yearly check up was over $100. My claim for glasses was denied by VSP even though per my optician, they cover portions of the options I selected. The famous flexibility that they brag about is entirely up to individual managers. Management does not live their values *at all*.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

9/80 and every 2nd Friday off, generous vacation time.

Cons

The company is 100+ years old and functions almost entirely on inertia. Senior Management is totally disconnected from the day to day, and it shows in the content of their "community" video meetings. They talk about diversity but have no interest in applying it. Most of the time they totally ignore the needs of their disabled employees.

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