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Pratt & Whitney

Part of RTX

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If you work here for a few years and earn a masters degree, you can go anywhere...and you should. - Quality Engineer Pratt & Whitney Employee Review

3.0
23 Sept 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent education package, and the amount of learning here is exemplary. Consider P & W the mecca of engineering. Pratt pays it's salary employees in the 50th percentile. You won't get rich working here but you will make more than most connecticut based engineering jobs.

Cons

Cut-throat corporate environment. Executive management expects engineering staff and middle managers to work large amounts of overtime with no extra compensation. Management is very short sighted and disorganized. Most of the manufacturing processes are outsourced to sub-par suppliers. Most of YOUR time will be spent fixing projects that the suppliers screw up. Engineers are expected to report to multiple people "IPT leaders" and work in a high stress environment in which everything you work on is due yesterday. Expect your health and family life to decay quickly....Bottom line? Abuse Pratt the way Pratt abuses you. Get your degree, get your experience and GET OUT! You will eventually be laid-off anyways...

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5.0
22 Feb 2026
Anonymous intern
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Good work culture - Very friendly people - Lots of room for growth - Great Pay

Cons

- Work can get stale

1.0
6 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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