Raytheon Sr. Embedded Systems Engineer reviews

Slow rate of promotion. Slow rate of pay increases. You need to really fight for both of these; they are below competition by a wide margin. The attrition rate is like 50% currently, and that means workloads with understaffed teams. Like I mentioned, they purposely just give out small 2% raises each year - you'll be making a lot less and new grads will potentially come in making more than employees that have been with the company for 3+ years. Their answer; 'boomerang'. Leave the company for a year and come back - you'll be hired at market rate (which is always above internal). No amount of internal transferring will get you market rate pay. If you prove to be too valuable in certain position you don't like or blocks your career growth - good luck because you'll be blocked from 'transferring' to any other position. You're 'too important' to leave for another position. You'll be trapped in that position/program. No good deed goes unpunished in RMD.

Employees can be pushed into silos easily. You fill a role where there is a program need above all else. You can end up doing work that is not what you expected when going through the interview / hiring process.