Raytheon reviews

The handling of the mandatory COVID-19 vaccination mandates has not gone over well with employees, to say the least. The "get vaccinated or get fired" policy is so draconian that many employees have chosen to leave or start looking for better opportunities. Not good in a company that already has retention issues. Since the merger with United Technologies there have been many changes that have attempted to meld the two companies as far as benefits, pensions, management of 401K, etc. These have not been in the employees' best interest. Recently announced dismal 2021 Q4 performance (blamed on COVID) has resulted in a skimpy merit raise pool for 2022. Excuses are given by management as to why raises don't even stay up with cost of living. High turnover and staff shortages result in many uncertainties, frustration and stress, especially on the closed programs. Many programs are under bid and then those hours are cut severely in negotiations with the customer in order to get or keep the work. This results in too few hours in the budget for engineers to do the job, high workload and grinding work weeks.

Because a lot of project information was classified/not in print, you have to rely on others to get up to speed when joining a project team. All the teams I joined were long-standing. This meant there was a lot I had to know that wasn't written down. I had to rely on my team mate(s) in order to learn the complex mechanics of the particular system setup to do my job. Initially, the guy(s) assigned to help me would indeed be very helpful (I say guy(s) because there were no other women working directly with me). The instructions they would give me, however, would invariably be incomplete or inaccurate and I'd have to ask them questions. This is when the problems would arise. Asking questions was not seen as me trying to do my job but rather an attempt to get their attention(flirt). After about one month on a project, just about everything I said or did would be interpreted as a flirtation. When they would discover that I was not interested in flirting/dating, they would become unhelpful. Why I left Raytheon Missile Systems: career advancement, raises, bonuses, etc... are dependent on the anonymous peer review. I was worried that I would be receiving poor reviews from those unhelpful individuals.