Lockheed Martin Reviews in Denver, CO Area

Pros

Good pay and benefits, and working in R&D allows for significant creative freedom. Good communication amongst coworkers, interesting work, and flexible schedule.

Cons

Sometimes you are assigned dull or tedious work. Also, performance reviews often seem like they're just for show and don't give you valuable feedback.

Advice to Senior Management

Please try to make performance reviews more meaningful, and feedback from management more frequent. Also, pay could stand to be a little higher.

Pros

It is a pretty stimulating environment with lots of bright people and interesting work. The company generally looks after its employees.

Cons

The exception to "looking after its employees" would be, for example, the recent reduction in force, which makes it a tough place sometimes.

Advice to Senior Management

Though it's somewhat understandable, it being a very government-influenced company and a somewhat "militaristic" environment, sometimes the emphasis on common-sense issues like treating fellow workers with basic human decency and respect comes across as a bit patronizing.

Pros

Health Benefits worked very well for standard issues, however, when specialized medications are required Lockheed's insurance provider was sub-standard.
Pay range for electrical engineer was on par with industry.
Tuition Reimbursements was more than adequate

Cons

Vacation & Sick time were lacking
Benefits seemed to be non-standard between departments and pay-grades.
Difficult to receive compensation for overtime when required by a project.

Advice to Senior Management

Standardize benefits between departments, increase PTO, improve health benefits, and give more freedom to your employees.

Pros

Low level managers are all engineers with little to no managerial skills and/or people skills. This means they do not delegate properly or know how to track what their people are doing. So if you are looking to simply maximize your pay for “actual” work per hour, Lockheed is great.

Cons

The one and only qualification for recognition at Lockheed is years of service. Skills are a secondary qualifier. If you are under 35-40, be prepared to be treated like an idiot.

Advice to Senior Management

Please take into account managerial skills when promoting people to managers. I know it's a lot to ask, but it would help.

Pros

Excellent access to proprietary tools to conduct thorough issue resolution or escalation and documentation.
Good desktop hardware/software, reliable 'up-time' of access to network resources to do your work.
Friendly work environment. They hire generally above the norm competent and friendly people.
Great team of people where knowledge is freely exchanged and help is available for difficult problems in critical situations.

Cons

Tendency to put 'yes-men' in supervisory positions to toe the corporate bottom-line.
FOX news is on both monitors in the dining room. 24/7
If you are a progressive thinking person, keep it to yourself.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work but start thinking about cyber defense products that have less collateral damage.

Pros

The products capture your imagination.

Cons

Poorly organized company with improper spans of control.

Advice to Senior Management

Reorganize.

Pros

Flex schedule
Pension
Benefits
Lot's of work locations nationwide

Cons

Never get to learn new technologies
No inovation
Leadership has no idea what they are doing
Raises suck.

Advice to Senior Management

If you want to keep talent, give decent raises. Get rid of salary grade levels and instead pay for performance.

Pros

Potential growth, Positive work environment, great benefits, great location, competent coworkers, challenging tasks

Cons

Heavy work load, unreasonable demands, unsure of longevity

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to hire competent employees, allow for growth and career progression

Pros

pension program and health benefits, good work family balance

Cons

training not paid for nor provided on regular basis to keep skills up to date, career advancement stale, end of year performance increases poor

Advice to Senior Management

too involved in the "process" and not seeing what really needs to happen

Pros

Great technology/innovations, great benefits, great people working here

Cons

large amount of stress, frequent travel, down-sizing,

Advice to Senior Management

more communications during economic recovery and impact to company