I had applied for years to Raytheon in Aurora, CO but never got so much as a phone call or email back from them. I applied through an employee referral and got an interview and phone call. I interviewed and then they made me a great offer that I accepted.

After I got hired it became apparent why I had never been interviewed before: they were only looking for women and minorities. I lucked out by interviewing at a time when they urgently needed qualified people for a project and were willing to hire a white male. However, when the company lost continuing contracts, the white males were the first to get laid off with about 2 hours notice to be out of their desks. One guy (white male) was only a year or two away from retirement when they laid him off. The females and minorities got moved off to other projects despite having worse work performance. They gave me 1 month severance without strings.

I have never been treated so unprofessionally in my career. The company seeks for ethnic minority and gender diversity at the expense of other higher performing employees and their customers and industry will suffer as a result of getting lower quality goods and services. They also actively promote the GLBT agenda through their corporate profits (gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender). They tell employees not to discuss salary (in direct violation of Federal law), and encourage employees not to seek job interviews with competitors when they are in danger of losing their contracts. Then, if they win the contracts, they go back to the existing employees, make them re-bid for their existing jobs with resumes and then pay them lower wages to keep their existing jobs. Lots of corporate double-speak and smoke and mirrors to improve their bottom line: corporate profits.

Nothing was too difficult or unexpected.