Vantaggi
Its a large defense contractor. You can kick back and be a low performer, or go into hyper drive and walk on water. It may not matter depending on where your line management thinks you sit on the bell curve.
Svantaggi
Mix of the last of the Hughes heritage culture, and the intentional bias on new hires as they did nothing concrete to fill the gap of the Baby Boomer Exodus. Culture and Values only go as far as whether we're shipping product or not. Of course they will deny this, and state the long list of Ethics programs they have, but when it comes to $$ they don't care what it takes. The performance evaluation system is broken. They used to have an equation with peer performance feedback, but they got rid of that years ago. Now its where your manager sees you to fit on the bell curve within his/her group. Missile Systems takes advantage of the fact that they're the only large engineering company in town, make no mistake about that. As far as advancement goes forget it. Raytheon is now focused on two things Radar and Computer Security. Most of the activity is in their facilitates in Texas. Go work there, but forget about a long term commitment to this company, they don't seem to care about that. Bye the way take the time to scrutinize the other posts. You'll find the positive ones are people that have interned and barely spent a couple of years. Also, Glass door doesn't do a good job breaking up reviews between business units of large companies. Not all business units are equal.