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Although informally correct, this is highly misleading. There really isn't much info about the company on the internet, the stuff that shows up in searches is laughably wrong, and it is really important to understand that "Raytheon Cyber Solutions, Inc." has different benefits and culture than many other companies owned by The Raytheon Corporation.

An example of the problem is glassdoor claiming $44k-$70k for a highly-technical position in San Antonio that requires an existing clearance. Seriously???? I smell paid services, but anyway that salary has been bit shifted. They also have lots of photos that are not us at all. There is a separate company that makes gun turrets, some place in Spain... this is simply not us at all.

So philibuster, this is not helping. Please stop. If anybody relies on a search for the company name, they might conclude that we pay top technical talent about as much as burger flippers.

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Why don't you just correct the GP? Kind of weird/suspicious that the company name appears to be secret

It isn't secret, but notice how many words it takes to explain things. That becomes half the job post and looks ridiculous. If I don't go into that long-winded explanation, and maybe even if I do, people are going to make some very wrong assumptions about the company. This is a mid-sized company of about 400 people, not really public-facing, purposely without a web site. Searching for us on the internet mostly provides nonsense.

I hope that the technical aspects of the jobs are what people care about. I find it weird/suspicious if the name matters, given that it is common in the USA to have multiple distinct companies with distinct benefits and culture all operating under one brand.

A lot of people do care about more than just the technical aspects of the job, like what the company does. When that's intentionally obfuscated and the all the locations are government-y towns, then one is left to make assumptions — like that they'd be building software that spies on their fellow citizens or helps bomb people in faraway countries. Many people would be turned off by contributing to software like that even if the technical challenges are interesting.

And I didn't even say it was suspicious that the name was omitted in the job post. I said it was suspicious that when someone asked and someone else answered, apparently incorrectly, you got defensive but still didn't issue a correction. It's weird.

They were correct, in an informal way. I clarified that, though evidently not well. (C is for Cyber, S is for Solutions, I is for Inc.)

The only comments ever posted by philibuster are in response to me. It's sort of a stalking thing, which should explain my irritation. Because the company lacks a web or other consumer presence, very little information can be easily found from the name. What little is out there is absurdly wrong.

When I think of "building software that spies on their fellow citizens", the first thing that pops into mind is all of San Francisco and Silicon Valley. That is the entire business model of that area, and of most of the jobs being posted here.

I have a friend in Dallas that works at Raytheon. I asked him what he does. He said: “Can’t tell you.”

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