Things have changed for the worse with Raytheon since UTC takeover - Senior Principal Systems Engineer Raytheon Employee Review

2.0
8 Apr 2024
Recommend
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Pros

I'm not sure anymore. I've been here 22 years and hardly recognize the company any more. I don't see a lot of happy interns or new hires. People seem to just be here until something better comes along. The company froze our pensions (I was one of the last hiring classes that had a Raytheon defined benefit pension) in 2022 opening the gates of free agency for folks like me who have significant experience yet plenty of runway left on our careers.

Cons

After the UTC takeover, it's seemingly been all cons for mid-career and senior employees. There are few perks any more (no company funded get togethers, no lunches provided at section meetings, no spot awards, etc). Corporate profits remain high while workers are patted on the back with merit increases that don't even cover cost of living increases. For those of us getting high enough to move into executive functions, they keep stretching out our salary bands to keep us in the individual contributor ranks with paltry merit increases and crap bonuses. All the while, the "Golden Children", i.e. the selected few, get promoted quickly and pulled along into high salary, high bonus roles sitting atop the work us grunts do every day. Raytheon is now a business unit of RTX. Our defense business floats some of the mess created by the other business units (the Pratt & Whitney engine debacle of 2023 comes strongly to mind).

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5.0
18 Apr 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
9 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-Pay is good -Employee Scholar Program is an excellent benefit -Ability to be exposed to a variety of cool technologies

Cons

-Work here is incredibly slow depending on location. I'm a top performer and have to consistently have to ask my team lead for more work on a weekly basis. Sometimes he is unavailable or doesn't respond to my messages with new task. Seeing as I'm required to come into the office, it is frustrating and discouraging that my team can never seem to properly make use of my talents and time. -Managers are pretty much useless and do not provide any form of mentorship or guidance to employees. -You have to fight for mentorship and promotion opportunities here. Raytheon does not have an effective mentorship program in place which I feel leads to a lot of underdeveloped engineers. -Raytheon doesn't seem to have any form of culture or camaraderie anymore. I work in the same state as my team, but I never see them in person. It is honestly sad that some programs are this disorganized or dysfunctional. Corporate leadership preached that Return to Office would increase in-person collaboration (which I was excited for), but I have not seen this put into practice. To put it into context, I've been on my current program for 5 months now and I've only seen my team lead in-person once. Additionally I have yet to meet anyone else on the program in-person or digitally via Teams or Zoom meetings. Everyone on my current program seems to work in their own bubble that they do not want to come out of except via the occasional email.

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