Management is losing Contracts and Employees - Systems Integration and Test Engineer Raytheon Employee Review

2.0
11 Dec 2025
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Pros

Plenty of opportunities to work on cutting edge systems and technology and with very intelligent people. Had excellent team mates and direct leadership.

Cons

Upper management played politics so much that it drove people away from the company. Similarly, the poor management and excuses lead to contracts being lost. Despite losing multiple contracts and lots of employees it was seen as a financial win for the company because they had delivered on time for one deliverable and received good grades on their pay. Pay and benefits is severely below average compared to competition within the industry. Promotions were non existent and overdue frequently. Promotions were on average 2-5% raises, but external was 30%. The "boys club" of management was very sexist and this played a factor in raises, promotions, and opportunities for career development. Retaliation was common and management was protected from official HR reports and violations.

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5.0
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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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