Overworked employees, unqualified managers, and just plain too big. - Assistant Site Manager RTX Employee Review

As the company grows, it becomes more and more bureaucratic and over the 10 years I've worked for Raytheon, I've watched communication go down the drain entirely, even in the smallest of groups within a program. - Overly complex management structure. Program managers, operations managers, supply chain managers, district managers, project managers, site managers, shipping managers. Literally everyone is a "manager" in Raytheon! It's insane. In our program of roughly 25 employees, more than 15 of them are "managers." - Not keeping up with trends in organizational structure that other companies are adopting to stay competitive. I.e. Raytheon is still HIGHLY hierarchical and I believe this comes from the high amount of retired veterans and constant work with the government. They cannot let go of the military world and they bring it into the corporate environment. Not to mention, they all hire one another into their "Good-Ole-Boy Club", even though they have ZERO experience in the field (We literally have a former high school teacher and genetics engineer as the head of our quality department in a maintenance program). In a world where decisions must be made quickly and competition is fierce with technology, Raytheon is lacking massively. A perfect example of this is it took 8 months for me to get a new laptop, even though mine was running on Windows 7 and being repeatedly locked out of Raytheon's own system due to being a security risk. EIGHT MONTHS. Emails went all the way up to our program manager, operations manager, IT department - no responses ever. No action. At least not until my computer was completely locked out of the system and I demanded IT to get me a new laptop. - Benefits are lacking for such a large and diverse corporation. Health insurance is the worst I've ever seen in the industry. Nothing but a health savings plan (HSP)? Really Raytheon? One single medical event and years' worth of savings are drained. - I've experienced more broken promises from management than kept promises. I've witnessed management tell an employee their job is safe and 6 months later call them up to tell them their position is being terminated. Not even a face-to-face meeting. HR emails them their severance paperwork, sign it, and done. Out the door they go after years of working for the company. - HUGELY understaffed projects across the entire enterprise. In a world of contracts, the bottom bid gets the win. So what does that mean when you can't cut costs in overhead? You cut from staff. We pile on many positions' worth of duties onto single individuals, and this creates more and more mistakes, burnout, and eventually loss in morale. People within my program who've worked for the company for decades have told me they've never seen Raytheon so low before. All we ever talk about is money - never the people, never the quality. - Meetings to have meetings to have meetings. My god we never stop having meetings. Doing our jobs with Bluetooth in our ears on mute, quite literally, all day long. Then after a meeting is over, individuals from the meeting call each other to complain about other people in the meeting and what a waste of time it was to have one another in the meeting. It's completely counterproductive and a total joke. Take some lessons from Elon Musk and cut the meetings. Meetings were created in a time when emails, texts, and instant communication didn't exist (you know, the 1950s). We don't need it anymore - period. I know managers that are literally paid to sit and have teleconference meetings - $100k/year salaried individuals to sit and have meetings. Talk about waste! - Massive lack of use of technology in my particular program. We are still doing bookkeeping with physical paper and typing in data that could be easily scanned with barcodes. Yet to "justify our jobs" we keep doing things like we did in the 1990's. Myself and other employees have researched and presented ideas for a more productive use of technology, only to be given excuse after excuse by upper management why we can't implement these tools. Our program won't even buy iPads to do inspections of equipment with because "security is a nightmare." - Red tape. As mentioned above, bureaucracy. We have to get approval just to order office supplies - pens, paper, ink. I watched a former manager get written up because he purchased too much Windex at one time (making it a HAZMAT purchase - for a 5 gallon jug) and this was "against company policy." What a joke. Are you serious Raytheon? - Lack of trust of employees. Management does not trust employees. Period. Hence the constant "training" and red tape that covers management's butts rather than investing in the employees. - Lack of trust of management. Employees don't trust managers. Managers don't reply to emails or phone calls inquiring about important business opportunities and needs. But god forbid you forget to fill out your time card - management will call you at 3:30am (because they're in another time zone) to make you fill it out.