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Pratt & Whitney

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This company has seen better days - Senior Mechanical Engineer Pratt & Whitney Employee Review

3.0
30 July 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

World class high tech products to work on.

Cons

The company has become so focused on standardized procedures to do virtuallu all engineering. This has made even simple tasks take forever to complete, and also saps creative and innovative thinking. Engineers are becoming process driven robots that will complete engineering tasks by following a bewildering series of steps and documentation so numerous, that often they loose site of the more important aspects of the design. The result is often a poor design, when the process is supposed to be so thorough that mistakes are never made. Outsourcing is another mess because they rely too much on it. This leaves their own engineers acting as baby sitters to the outsource help, thereby eroding their own technical skills to do the jobs themselves. Workload and expected "casual overtime"? Do even get me started.

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5.0
10 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexible work week. As long as you reach 40 hours for the week, doesn't matter when you come/go each day. Food is pretty good.

Cons

Quick growth to P3, but growth after that stagnates/fails to be competitive in salary

3.0
24 June 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Concern for Safety is a legitimate priority. The work is very process oriented and theres little uncertainty or chaos in the day to day. Theres a formalized way of doing everything. Work-life balance is good for the american standard.

Cons

The company is 100+ years old so the way things get done is over-constrained and very resistant to change. As a result work can be monotonous and Information, while abundant, is extremely difficult to reliably retreive. You will work harder not smarter.

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