Management Miasma, No focus on recruitment - Principal Analyst Raytheon Employee Review

2.0
3 Oct 2023
Recommend
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Pros

* Has some great products * Product catalog sold out forever, because our government is deadset on the "War As A Service" model and not just... you know. Ending them. * Some seriously deep, dedicated engineers floating around

Cons

* Management has a TON of Peter Principled inepts just shuffling things around and looking busy while absolutely nothing - ever - changes. Ever. * Zero interest or attention to employee retention. When HR was asked about this, directly, in a company all hands the response was: "Oh well, we're trying to recruit actively!" The misunderstanding of the question felt like the most honest answer we'd heard yet. * Limp recruitment. People are going to work on crypto or AI. Not defense. Not in the USA, anyway. *Raytheon has STD. It's pretty gross. Stands for Silo'd To Death. The nature of what we do creates 'containerization', which breeds inefficiency. In a healthy company managers will work together to combat that inefficiency, such as duplication of effort or forking standards. Not here. Here we just roll with it. Interdepartmental battles, pariahs, gluttonous power lords with absurd ideals (Cyber, looking at you, bud!), and dopey managers just looking to slide by enough time to get their next promotion are the way of the day.

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5.0
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Pros

Exciting work Fast paced Great team members Great leadership Great development opportunities

Cons

Weak promotions Weak bonuses Inability to turn dev opportunities to new roles

3.0
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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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