Raytheon Reviews in Denver, CO Area

Pros

Work life balance depending on where you end up.

Cons

You are in charge of your own career growth. Make sure you are assertive and network with as many people as you can in the company. The company is big and you can get lost. But the opportunities are there if you look for them. If you need tools and resources, you may face an uphill battle to get them but with the right management on your side, it can happen.

Advice to Senior Management

Do not lose sight of the value your employees provide to you and the company. This tends to happen more often than not.

Pros

Good pay, good benefits. Lots of opportunities once you are in the company. Good flexibility of work and real life.

Cons

Management laughable. Got in trouble for being on Internet too much. Gay. Too much middle management, management reorgs every month-they have no idea where they are going as a company. Middle management are made into clones with no ability to think outside the Raytheon Management box. Technology 20 years old-makes being in IT department horribly frustrating. Too many procedures, policies, etc.

Advice to Senior Management

Grow up, treat your employees like adults-think outside the box, stop trying to mold 1000s of incompetent company-line-towing middle managers. Let your employees be innovative and update your ass old technology.

Pros

Good management
Good people
Not stressful work
Great benefits package
Managers that cared about your career path

Cons

The pay was horrible and not inline with outside world or even other government contractors.

Advice to Senior Management

The company is a bit top heavy and the pay was horrible compared to the real world IT industry.

Pros

Great benefits for everyone. Coffee day once a month with a professional coffee cart, pie day, and other moral boosters are what I remember most...

Cons

the payscale was a bit lower than other companies, and the ability to get a payraise or promotion was a lot slower than it should have been.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen more to employee feedback, and make sure that team leads are better vetted into the positions that they take.

Pros

It pays the mortgage. It beats the alternative.

Cons

Steeped in process and overhead.

Advice to Senior Management

None.

Pros

Work life balance is great. Get the job done, but on your schedule.
Salary and benefits are good.
Feel like your doing something meaningful.

Cons

Work with ancient technology. Can't upgrade, can't try out anything new.
Advancement seems to be based on quotas, or time served, but certainly not on contribution.
Encouraged to develop homogeneous code. New ideas are not appreciated.
Spin a lot of time on framework code.

Advice to Senior Management

Innovation is a big buzz word, but all I have seen so far is policy being set by the "old" guard, with little absorption of what's going on in the rest of the rest of the world.

Pros

It's a job. Great benefits (at the time), the salary is one of the lowest that I have had.

They are *supposed* to help with higher eduation, but they figured out an excuse not to help me. I eventually graduated from my program Summa Cum Laude, with another company helping me. I left Raytheon because they didn't. Your loss, Raytheon.

Cons

Raytheon management kept taking away automated remote tools that helped to do the work. They have no idea what Client Relationship Management (CRM) is, nor do they have any idea how to implement client services using one of the many frameworks available today (ISO 9001, ITIL, CMMI, CobIT). I hear that they are losing contracts these days.

Advice to Senior Management

Get a clue.

Pros

- The benefits are terrific
- Corporate management is with it, and is trying to modernize (socially, procedurally) the company (see cons)

Cons

- Middle management is entrenched in the 1950's (processes, values, expectations) and is stifling change
- "Be creative" communications that start positive at the top corporate levels are changed to "obey" instructions by the time they percolate down through management layers

Advice to Senior Management

Undertake a large effort to evaluate managers fit with the stated Raytheon values (not the practiced values) - clear house of the ones that don't share the company values

Pros

Government contractor, large company, relocation opportunities. Raytheon offers a wide variety of jobs and fields. Pay raises for time spent with the company, determined by the government.

Cons

Terrible HR department. They are impossible to get a hold of and will never call you back. Company is so large that it is managed from thousands of miles away. Took MONTHS to go through the hiring process

Advice to Senior Management

Offer feedback to employees, especially in the hiring and new hire process. HR should know what is going on and how to reach a solution.

Pros

Raytheon IIS has great opportunities if they happen to like your style. Their employee benefits are second-to-none for the area. Their educational benefits are very generous and I attended school with their assistance.

Cons

The current employees were very clique-y and self-serving. There was very little knowledge sharing and support among teams. It was everyone for himself in that place. Lots of prima donas. The occaisional good person was not enough to make the work environment pleasant.

Advice to Senior Management

There are several great IT governance methodologies available. Try one or two before you start losing contracts.