Pratt & Whitney reviews

The company has become so focused on standardized procedures to do virtuallu all engineering. This has made even simple tasks take forever to complete, and also saps creative and innovative thinking. Engineers are becoming process driven robots that will complete engineering tasks by following a bewildering series of steps and documentation so numerous, that often they loose site of the more important aspects of the design. The result is often a poor design, when the process is supposed to be so thorough that mistakes are never made. Outsourcing is another mess because they rely too much on it. This leaves their own engineers acting as baby sitters to the outsource help, thereby eroding their own technical skills to do the jobs themselves. Workload and expected "casual overtime"? Do even get me started.

"Put your time in" attitude makes those who are motivated and talented very frustrated. Career progression in engineering in particular is painfully slow. Pay is targeted at the low end of industry and you are almost guaranteed to be under paid your entire time at the company and you are told that no one can correct that. If you are smart and motivated, this is not a good place to spend a career. If you want a 9-5 and little accountability and are willing to give up pay and career progression, this may be the right place for you.