Lockheed Martin Reviews

Pros

In certain locations, employees can work a 9x80 schedule (every other Friday off) by working 9 hour days. Great pay and benefits with an acceptance on the west coast of work-life-balance and flexible schedules.

Cons

Job security is purely dependent on contracts awarded to the company and their duration.
Lots of proposal work can mean working long hours. Managers don't receive compensation for overtime.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to value and listen to your employees.

Pros

The pay is very good. I had a great manager and a positive, safe, professional work place. We where in a high security environment so there were a lot of restrictions on ourselves personally ( understandable ). I worked in Satellite Ops so career you had a job for life as long as the satellite system was active.

Cons

With Satellite Ops, if your satellite system dies out, so does your career. Who/What would hire you if your an expert on XYZ satellite and XYZ satellite system is decommisioned. It's a great place to work, and they look out for their people. Promotion, nope, we had guys in the office at their spots for 15+ years so your cemented into your slot for life.

Advice to Senior Management

Overall management is great! One drawback, Lockheed Martin keeps way way too many older employees that are vested for life... too much old deadwood in the organization. Some 20+, 30+ year employees just can't be fired and just linger around the office doing almost nothing due to too much job security. Hire younger employees.

Pros

Lockheed has exciting programs to work on and is very flexible about schedules and telecommuting.

Cons

Old school mentality. Needs to be better about motivating employees.

Pros

Work-life balance-they support it as priority one! Lockheed Martin also pushes your advancement in the company and provide all of the necessary resources.

Cons

I believe there a few too many politics and pet personnel at Lockheed Martin. It seems that the lower level managers are not monitored as much by upper management as they should be.

Advice to Senior Management

While the managers are "on your side," I feel that they do not treat everyone equally. I guess you see a little bit of this anywhere you work.

Pros

Excellent benefits and management support for getting an advanced degree, including tuition re-imbursement; great people to work with at all levels, pleasant work environment, lots of opportunities to learn through formal classes and on the job; strong finanacials, very solid company

Cons

Large company momentum sometimes difficult to overcome when making changes; assignments sometimes given with little regard to relevancy of employee skills

Advice to Senior Management

Look for the value brought by each employee and do a better job of matching skills and experience to tasks assigned

Pros

Good pay
Good benefits
Enjoyable work
Room for professional growth

Cons

Have to know the right people to get promoted
Very disorganized at the management level
Few people do all of the work, while the entire dept gets recognition and raises

Advice to Senior Management

Know who works for you and who actually does the work so the proper people can be rewarded adequately, as opposed to giving blanket raises to everyone, lowering morale and spirit for the few that do the work.

Pros

Received internship via phone interview, received a relocation bonus for the summer. It was really fun and a great resume booster.

Cons

Internship was unorganized, I was essentially stuck on the managers who didn't even want an intern, probably some corporate mandated intern program, but they made the best of it, I helped with several projects and tried not to be a burden, as they were very busy. I was nominated for the Leadership development program, at the interviews 14 fellow LM interns attended, they hired no one.....Seems the only LM division that does a good job converting employees in Aviation - stay away from Space or ISGS, etc...

Pros

Great people, great customer. High value products. Lots of support for work/life balance. 9x80 schedule is great! Flexible hours. Exciting technology. Educational reimbursement is outstanding.

Cons

Slow to get promoted and too many restrictions. Big company, communication and collaboration between program areas lacking.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to have skip level meetings. Promotions/pay raises/better recognition will help keep employees that do not have a pension.

Pros

-great benefits, in general good salary
-good work/life balance
-engaging coworkers
-good place to get career kickstarted, well branded name for future employers

Cons

-can be hard to move positions (laterally or up)
-gov't contracting can mean quick and last minute changes in direction

Advice to Senior Management

review your junior staff for "up and comers" - a lot of the future leaders can be found in the highly determined junior staff

Pros

Very ethical, diverse company. Lots of depth in some areas (i.e. key programmes / products). Well understood structure, plenty of room for movement.

Cons

Very deep hierarchy, can be at risk of being pigeon-holed and therefore remove ability to move between roles. Very process heavy.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to employees, understand some subtle feedback and know when to accept advice from those who are your junior. Encourage alternative ways of doing things rather than 'it's this way or the highway'.