I am thinking of applying at Raytheon. I would love to know the work culture and how stable the company is when it comes to layoffs. Also, is Engineering fellow equal to director at Raytheon. What are the engineering levels below Engineering fellow.
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What should be happening is no more printed fiat from the Fed, no one buying bonds/Treasurys and selective cuts in defense. This joker will spend on giveaways printing press or not. No job is safe. It just hasn't hit defense yet. I wouldn't pick up a move for the job.
I have no motivation to be like the baby boomers when I came into the industry. Kept all of the information to themselves. If I can spare someone a little of the pain I went through, I'm all for it.
To be fair, I won't help Executives, Contracts, and HR people. Technical folks, I'll try to assist where I can.
Why did you have to "spill the beans"?!! Let this guy find out himself, like when we were kids and told another kid "jump in...the water ain't that cold" BUT WE ALL KNEW IT WAS ULTRA COLD. Lol
This has been a well-trodden response in this chat area for a while now, but let me at least give an idea about "levels". DISCLAIMER: I've not worked for Raytheon for several years so my information is a little dated...
All pay grades have overlap. If I was to make a WAG I'd say the overlap between the upper bound of a lower paygrade to the beginning of the next paygrade was about 20%.
RayTurd (previously Raytheon) ran on an "E" system rating for engineering, and "A" for technicians (I don't know about management as they don't count ;)).
In or about 2015 as they were changing our health package contributions (for the negative) they went to a more complex "G" level system. For example, an E3 "senior engineer" was now a G8. An E4 was a G9, etc/, etc. I wish I had a V8 8).
The G levels were more definitized so the pay bands I believe were truncated to accommodate.
Now with the merger being finalized, who knows what the heck they're doing with the pay scale. However, I CAN say they were really ratcheting back on the health benefits before the merger, and with the huge debt "Slaveon" took on from UTC, I imagine more was done with that.
There is light at the end of the rectal tunnel. If RayTurd can get they're act together with the new Hypersonic contracts, there could be a business bo-m for them. But, history is the educator, everything else is speculation.
I wish you the best of luck.
It takes a special kind of stupid to ask on a layoff site about the “culture” and stability. Especially with the very plentiful amount of threads discussing the state of the company. You’re either an id--t or another HR person trying to prod for information.
Find another job elsewhere. Raytheon is sh-t.
Good luck with mapping the titles across companies. It's intentionally confusing, by design, so that an employee may get demoted (thinking that he got promoted) as he exercises his right to "job hop". Example 1...Staff Engineer...fairly low title in LMT, pretty high title in Northrop. Example 2...Principal Engineer...low title in Northrop, above average in RTX.