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Pratt & Whitney

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Pratt & Whitney - A Great but Big Company - Software Engineer Pratt & Whitney Employee Review

4.0
12 Jun 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The benefits that is offered by Pratt's bigger parent, UTC allows working engineers to obtain a M.S degree while still working on the job. Pratt has a collegian environment even if it is a big company, people are divided into much smaller groups where the manager in your immediate group is led by a technical manager. So the end-result is that, groups are very focused on the core technology. The company tries to be as transparent and accommodating to its employees. There are Jr. engineers who start and lead multidisciplinary projects. Advancement for engineers come quickly for those who want to stay on either the technical side or the management side.

Cons

Pratt & Whitney is a huge company, so expect the internal company politics that comes with the territory. Like all other UTC companies, employees are expected to drink the UTC-ACE, 6-S koolaid (read: many motivational speaking conferences). It might be frustrating at times to deal with volumes of bureaucracy and paperwork to push your idea through, if you are the self-starter type.

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5.0
10 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexible work week. As long as you reach 40 hours for the week, doesn't matter when you come/go each day. Food is pretty good.

Cons

Quick growth to P3, but growth after that stagnates/fails to be competitive in salary

1.0
6 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent pay and good benefits.

Cons

Personnel reporting to me had apparently looked up my political affiliation (which I had never mentioned) and took exception to it by sabotaging work that I had supervised. This was well before 2022 - actually 2015-2016 (2022 is earliest review date I could select). I was just now remembering it. This polarized political posture was a function of the plant being near Harrisburg, PA which, at least then, was a somewhat "redneckish" area. I have never discussed my politics at work, so it seemed absurd of them to look up my party affiliation and take issue with it.

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