Low Pay - Software Engineer II Raytheon Employee Review

2.0
21 June 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Very friendly work schedules. Easy to flex time for a doc appointment or family activities. 9/80 work schedule. Easy to move teams. You're treated as a contractor internally though you are salaried. If you don't like your job or team it's easy to move to a new project. Not a lot of pressure to work more than 40 hrs a week. Straight time overtime paid for hrs over 40.

Cons

They don't invest in the employees they have. They pay big sign on bonuses and enticing salaries to external hires and screw over the people who have been here for while. You will never get above a 2-4% raise no matter how hard you work. People who decide how much you get paid do not actually supervise your work. Promotions are a popularity contest and have no correlation to your actual work. If your section head doesn't know what your working on because it's classified you have no way to advocate for yourself. You have to beg for a raise here and even then they won't budge above 3%. They pay external hires more than internal employees. Work here for 2 years and then leave because over time they will just underpay you. Promotion only worth 3% salary bump is a joke. Should be more like 4-6%.

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5.0
9 June 2026
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Pros

Exciting work Fast paced Great team members Great leadership Great development opportunities

Cons

Weak promotions Weak bonuses Inability to turn dev opportunities to new roles

3.0
9 Feb 2026
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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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