RTI International reviews

4.0

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,336 total reviews)
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Tim Gabel

78% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

RTI International has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,336 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The RTI International employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Feb 23, 2024

Layoffs

Recommend
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Pros

option to work from home 4 days a week

Cons

Layoffs, restructure of departments and management without any logical thought

1.0
Jun 1, 2023

Be Warned

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None that I can think of exactly

Cons

I would be weary of this company if you try to leave it might be hard. They have connections with the government since a strong majority of their work comes from government contracts. They also have relationships with recruiting firms such as TEKsystems that can track your new job applications online with their applicant tracking system (ATS). You can check into the company but you will have a hard time checking out of the establishment.

5.0
Mar 14, 2023

Great place to work!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Your experience at RTI is hugely dependent on your manager and the team you roll up under. RTI has several different business units which each have their own cultures. I worked in the administrative/corporate BU, specifically in Corporate Communications. We worked with people in most of the BUs on their various communication needs, so I also got a good sense of how the different spaces operated. In terms of Marketing/Comms teams, I would say SSES was the best BU to work in and with and IDG was the worst. Corp Comms fell somewhere in the middle. Overall, RTI is an EXCELLENT place to work. Great benefits, great company culture, extremely flexible/reasonable WFH policy, strong organizational focus on EDIB and opportunities for self-starters to get involved in things like Employee Resource Groups and form meaningful relationships across the institute outside their departments. I really enjoyed the CEO. He seems like a kind, thoughtful man who genuinely cares and wants to leverage his position to make a positive impact. He’s very reasonable and even-tempered and has provided a lot of support for RTI’s EDIB staff to grow and shape the company culture. He also makes an effort to remember the names of lower level employees too, which sounds minor but I think is a big deal for someone is a position of power at such a huge company. He did a good job acknowledging and honoring the disappointment that many employees felt when he, another straight, white male, was first appointed as CEO. He didn’t shy away from the hard questions or seek to downplay them, which gave me a lot of respect for him. There are more amazing people working at RTI than I can count, and the work RTI is doing across its many practice areas is incredibly impactful and important in so many ways. I loved so many things about working there. Get a solid manager on a solid team, and you’ll have a great experience.

Cons

Like so many large organizations, RTI struggles to be nimble. The many channels you have to go through to get anything done by the book can be exhausting, slowing down productivity and reducing efficiency. That’s probably why they also have such a problem with departments “going rogue” and doing things outside of the approved channels or methods in order to do them faster. That being said though, it was always odd to me how siloed the various BUs and departments were at RTI. Many departments just sort of did their own things without any pushback from leadership. Department leads would even hire their own staff to complete work that was supposed to be done by existing staff in other departments, and no one would stop them. IDG in particular was known for this. This led to the right hand often not knowing what the left hand was doing within the same organization, resulting in haphazard, inefficient processes.

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Thank you for your detailed feedback and for recognizing RTIs efforts to build company culture and to focus on equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
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