r/Raytheon

Hi all!

I'm a 25M moving from Baltimore to Tucson for a new SWE position with Raytheon.

I'd love to hear people's thoughts on which neighborhoods young adults thrive in. I want to be in a walkable or semi-walkable area with plenty to do without having to travel too far. From what I've learned in my past research, this means I pretty much have to be in Downtown, but I'd like to get more opinions on this. In general, is there a specific neighborhood that Raytheon Employees gravitate to?

Going off of that, are there specific neighborhoods or places in the city that Raytheon employees often go to in groups? I saw in some of my Tucson resources that there are Raytheon events and sports leagues. Is that real? And if so, where do those take place?

Also, for the people who have relocated to Tucson in the past, do most young people live alone when they move to Tucson for work? Are there any Raytheon-specific message boards/websites to meet other people who are or have moved to the area?

If anyone out there has any other information or advice they think might be important, please throw that my way as well.

Thanks :)

I will be leaving RTX soon and was wondering if anyone had advice on what I should save/download or what steps I should take before leaving. Planning on saving W2 and paycheck info, but are there other things I should save? Does anyone have any advice on what to do with 401k and HSA? My new job has both options, but can I leave my accounts where they are or do I have to move them?

This is my first job switch so I have no experience in this. TIA!

Just got hired by Raytheon at Andover engineering. Was wondering if there was any sort of socializing (when it makes sense of course)?

Like i noticed at lunch most people keep to themselves and go off on their own for lunch.

Maybe i just suck at social cues or is this normal to just eat lunch alone?

*is it ok to speak with others in different departments? Im not in the main building like cleanroom facility

Has anyone unenrolled in healthcare coverage mid cycle? I'm just wondering because I'm a new hire who forgot to opt out of enrolling (I got one email that looked like spam and it got lost in all of the other new hire emails) and I'm still covered under my parents. But I see that there needs to be some life changing event in the last 30 days to unenroll mid cycle. There is an option of saying I gained coverage in the last 30 days but I've had it forever. They are also saying that they might follow up and ask for proof, do they ever ask for proof? Just wondering because they say in the fine print that not providing proof or providing false information is grounds for termination or legal action.

I just don't want to pay like 70 bucks per pay check till January.

Anyone have thoughts on living in places on valencia blvd at the rtx tucson site?

If an internal candidate interviewed for two different roles that were genuinely scoped at different levels — for example, one at P3 and another at P4/P5 — and ended up receiving offers for both, how would compensation typically be handled? Assuming both positions have been applied for and are not lateral moves.

I completely understand there wouldn’t be an internal “bidding war” between the two teams, but would you normally expect the offers to reflect the different grade and scope of each position, or could they potentially end up being offered at roughly the same salary because it’s the same internal candidate?

Just curious how that generally works in practice.

I am in the military so i have tricare that is extremely cheap and pretty decent, so i am not on the rtx health insurance at all but a few events here at work got me thinking if thats the right move.

Should i ever need short term, long term or fmla, does it matter that i dont use the rtx insurance? Does it make things more difficult or am i thinking too much?

I currently have the basic short term according to the gateway and I was thinking of adding long term as well. Not sure how it all works if im not using the rtx medical care or provider network

Received an engineering offer today for Raytheon in Mass, P3 engineering at 150k base 15k sign on with 120 hours PTO/sick. I have 17 years engineering and engineering management experience. Do they negotiate on PTO / sick or grandfather in people with outside YOE? Should I try and negotiate to a P4? For the Mass area w/o a substantial bonus I would have assumed closer to $175.

Oh, I am also in the running for a P4 pseudo engineering management role. But definitely have offer for P3. Perhaps will have offer or clarification on P4 in 1-2 weeks.

hello all i have a question for my clearance situation. I accepted the offer with RTX on April 24th 2026, set up a tentative start date of July 13th 2026. I got sent the SF86 form on June 12th 2026 and submitted it that day. Then I got some kickback and resubmitted it on June 16th 2026. My interim was not granted for whatever various reasons and I didn’t know it was denied until I reached out to my recruiter and she told me so through the onboarding specialist weeks later (clearance is required on day 1 so there is no unclassified work available to do). I had my first interview with the investigator on July 9th 2026, then I received another phone call from the investigator on July 29th 2026 where she asked more questions then she also requested to interview my brother on my behalf on the same July 29th 2026 asking questions about my character and how was I growing up and when we traveled and etc. Which then she told me that same day I should hear back about my adjudicated clearance decision soon. Then the investigator reached out to me again August 10th asking for clarification on some of my internship work history.

I wanted to ask when do you all think I will hear back about my adjudicated clearance decision?

some mitigations on my case:
• was born in a foreign country but received citizenship at birth due to my dad through the FS-240 form.
• traveled to level 3 country in 2019 for church conference for about 2 weeks but haven’t been in contact with anyone since that time.
• had an account opened in my name through my mom
when i was younger but i cleared up the confusion during my first interview with the investigator.
• had some MJ usage in college but was straightforward with that on my application and told the investigator straight up and was asked about it in my phone interview on July 29th 2026.

I moved into a new role few months ago after applying internally. It was a promotion, and I genuinely love the work.
Unfortunately, shortly after I joined, there was a reorg and a completely new manager was brought in. The working relationship has become extremely difficult and toxic. At this point, I honestly can’t see myself working under her for another 6 months.
I see an internal managerial position but
company policy says employees must remain in a role for 12 months before applying internally. Has anyone successfully received an exception or found a legitimate way to apply earlier? My main reason for wanting to move is to get away from this manager, so I doubt she would support or approve a transfer.
Could HR or the hiring manager waive the waiting period? Has anyone been in a similar situation, and how did you handle it without making things worse?

Hello! I recently started the ESP program and did not realize the limits are set for one year, not per semester. I only realized this after I signed up for my fall classes and I am now past the limit for my ESP. I’m only over a couple grand so I could pay it out of pocket if needed but my ESP dashboard never updated when I first submitted vouchers to the school. The school finance page cleared all my amounts and set them to zero but the actual ESP page showed 12000 until I was starting my fall classes. I had submitted my vouchers to the school thinking I still had enough to cover everything and today when I checked, everything was set back to zero. So I’m definitely over the ESP limit but the school doesn’t say I owe anything. What do I do from here? Should I reach out? I would assume they will eventually notice and don’t want to be stuck with late fees or refund charges but I’m not sure who to contact, whether it should be the school or someone who can help me with RTX ESP finance dept.

What's a recommend salary range for a P4 with 20 YoE with a Masters in an Engineering discipline?
This will be for applying for an internal req Raytheon to Collins, lateral move as a P4.
At the moment I am slightly under 50% of the P4 Salary Band.

Hi all, I’ve recently received an offer from RTX for the ELDP (software) program and just wanted to get your thoughts on the company as whole? What are some good roles to start off in ? I’m interested more into Operations Analysis, Research, System Engineering, and Cyber. Also since we get to choose where we work, what some good sites? I prefer the heat and would love to be in/close to a big city. Any advice or suggestions are appreciated!

Anyone else having issues with Alight Healthy You incentives? I requested a gift card 2 days ago with my rewards and its been 2 days and the system says it is still processing. Its never taken more than a couple of hours for me before.

I started as a P1 today at a facility and went through a lot of the usual stuff, went to my facility, met some people in my area was shown where I was supposed to be.

I got there at 7:45 or so, then finally got to my facility where I met my ambassador, talked for a little bit, got shown around and was supposed to have another discussion with him before I left (or I think anyways, it wasn’t really clear) was given some stuff to read and other stuff related to my area, waited for about 2 hours or so until I finally said I’m not really sure what’s happening, I don’t know what time I’m supposed to be here tomorrow, I don’t know what my schedule is supposed to be, I don’t know what I need to really do beyond my trainings, and i don’t know how to track my time or anything for my first 2 days. I had a lot of questions I just feel like I couldn’t really get answered.

I left around 6:30 or so and left a message.

Did I do the wrong thing? I’m just worried I made the wrong move. I sat around for awhile but I felt that like also would’ve got me into some trouble.

I’m still very excited for this job, I just felt like it was a little chaotic. I’m not trying to complain, I just wasn’t sure how this environment is supposed to work normally

What has happened to our Your Gateway retirement section. It used to be that we could go to the account summary and it would give some details there including balance. For the last few days Account summary give absolutely no details for me.

If someone were to leave after X amount of years from RTX, then realize the grass is not always greener on the other side and decide to come back X amount of years later. Does everything reset from scratch again? Like PTO, years of service, severance package if you are let go in future…etc.

Scenario is for those with 10+ years of experience and then decide to come back let’s say 1-2 years later…