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- 5.0Sep 20, 2023Software Engineer InternCurrent Employee, less than 1 year
Pros
The job is super flexible, with no fixed clock-in/clock-out requirements. You're just expected to make your full-time hours(40). Good pay and decent benefits and friendly co-workers.
Cons
You have to work onsite for a lot of the good positions, with little to no remote work. The work at times can be challenging, if tricky problems aren\t your thing.
- 5.0Aug 2, 2018Senior Systems AnalystCurrent Employee, more than 10 yearsFredericksburg, VA
Pros
High level of integrity throughout the company, open communications, and sincere interest in doing the right thing.
Cons
Unfortunately, I need to come up with twenty words of cons. When in reality after 41+ years in IT, I have no cons for Lockheed Martin. They are not perfect, but highly acceptable.
356 - 4.0Sep 15, 2023Software Engineer AssociateCurrent Employee, more than 1 yearFort Worth, TX
Pros
- 4 day 10 hour week shifts - Flex time availability - Occasional snacks - Friendly co-workers - Lots of room and time to grow in topics you are interested in - Tuition and Cert Reimbursement - Good PTO benefits
Cons
- Hawkish Middle and Upper Management and Heavy Corporate Atmosphere: Particularly be weary of the "Old Guard" these are your 60+ year old SWE Managers at this company. Many are out of touch with the new generation, and will put you under the table if you get in their way. There are some managers that only care about their pension and about those that do favors for them. - Questionable Ethics (please see above) despite the annual survey results that say otherwise. - Lethargic on-boarding process due to goverment restrictions: This is universal throughout the corporation and the defense industry, and gets in the way of the AGILE process. However, team-members try to mitigate it by supporting each other. - Contract switching: If you are new developer, or even experienced you are at some risk to become "loaned-out" to another team that may work in another completely different programming language or stack that you were hired for. They will try not to mention this during the interview, but it all depends on how big of a budget the manager has at the moment they hired you.
- 3.0Jul 23, 2023Hardware Development EngineerCurrent Employee, more than 1 yearFort Worth, TX
Pros
Great job security Great work life balance College program for masters degree is very flexible and pays for entire tuition cost
Cons
Not much work to go around Work is not as technical as they advertise on all job descriptions Strong procrastination mentality causing projects to take multiple months to years to complete No one can be fired even if their a bad engineer that doesn't work at all Company culture is too siloed causing not much networking to happen unless its at the few company sponsored events per year
2 - 1.0Sep 16, 2023Program ManagerCurrent Employee, more than 5 yearsLexington, KY
Pros
Mission Area supports USSOCOM's 160th Nightstalkers Rotary Wing Aircraft: MH-6M Littlebirds, MH-47G Chinooks, and MH-60M Black Hawks
Cons
1. Lockheed Martin SOF GLSS is not LM as advertized. SOF GLSS is a services contract - not a for profit division. Facilities are dilapodated and broken. Employee morale is the lowest i have ever experienced. 2. Salaries start out below std LM salaries. Mgmt's approach is to plateau your hire-in salary and drive your pay down to 80% of the grade-level pay scale or lower. 3. No career path planning, no opportunity for high performers to advance, and no ascenssion planning.
- 5.0Aug 11, 2023Senior Staff Electronics EngineerCurrent Employee, more than 10 yearsCape Canaveral, FL
Pros
Great company to work for! have been with them for 15 years. Great culture. Great Pay. Great benefits. Lots of different opportunities
Cons
As with any big size corporation red tape and politics can get in the way and burn out some of the smarter folks. In some areas turn over rate can be higher, specially at the lower levels L3 and below. But this is not any different than any other big size company
2 - 4.0Jul 12, 2023Software DeveloperFormer Employee
Pros
- 4 day work week, 10hr days, friday off. Option for 9hr days with every other friday off. - hybrid, but could probably persuade to be remote fully? Knew a few major players who did full remote and ppl didnt seem to care - maybe they argued for it idk. Had to be in-person to get equipment and employee card pictures. - pay felt good for what i did. could probably do less if thats your thing, or do more and lead stuff and level up for promotions. - I knew someone who promoted in 1 year out of uni to 100,000 yearly doing code reviews and leading scrum. - I got a systems thinking award with 1k cash bonus for helping initatives outside my team.
Cons
- Planning meetings every 3 months in person but I didnt feel i needed to be in-person. At least it was at the office i was close to. - my project was split into smaller teams, but those teams kept getting mixed around every 3 months. felt isolated and a little confusing. - that same reorg stuff moved my managers around. i didnt know who my manager was, and they didnt ever talk to me. I was having some mental issues and needing a break and they didnt help me figure out a way to do that while staying at the company. partially my fault tho - all the 'training' provided was not very good imo, both ethical and technical. pretty basic. might the same for all companies tho, idk
- 1.0Aug 29, 2023Senior Safety EngineerFormer Employee, more than 8 yearsSilverdale, WA
Pros
LM Space is a great company! There are lots of opportunities to go to other programs, the pay is decent, and it can be a fun place to work.
Cons
STRONGLY advise against working for LM Space at NBK-Bangor. Ethics complaints are weaponized, senior management lacks fundamental leadership skills, Human Resources are not responsive, and the Navy customer is very difficult to work with which is magnified when working as a contractor on "their" base. Employees who transfer from this site consistently say that their life and job is so much better, and there is a large exodus happening right now. A senior leader asked me why a coworker of mine did not come to them to talk about a planned surgery so they could "practice their empathetic leadership skills." That leader never called to check on the employee after the surgery either.
1 - 1.0Sep 19, 2023Software EngineerFormer Employee, more than 5 yearsLittleton, CO
Pros
Working there is better than being unemployed and on the street
Cons
Nepotism, racism, sexism, all rampant despite protestations to the contrary. No real opportunities for technical career advancement. Management shuffles seats so often there's no clear leadership. When, not if, projects fall behind all of the platitudes about modernization and advancing technology are chucked out of the window and they fall back into the standard 20th century business models and design techniques.
- 2.0Sep 7, 2023Multi-functional Manufacturing SupervisorFormer Employee, more than 5 yearsFort Worth, TX
Pros
Great place and my teams were very knowledgeable. I could put allot on my employees plates and they always achieved there goals.
Cons
Management above the L4 level is a joke. Very opportunistic and self preservationist. Never had the teams back and looked to blame anyone they could. They resent the union employees in a conceded fashion. I was always instructed to get my two lowest performers and write them up almost in a daily basis regardless of the reason behind a non productive day. Never seen a production hierarchy act or perform in the way they do. Very disheartening and the reason I quit after dealing with it for five years.
Are we all getting a salary bump since we are at really high inflation? Can’t even afford anything Lockheed Martin anymore with the current salary and being level 1.
You know half of all American wage earners make less than $50k, right? I’m guessing you make a lot more than that. Wanting to be paid more is fine, whining you “can’t even afford anything” when there are people struggling to feed their families is stupid.
I work at Lockheed Martin in Finance, Biz. Ops and Contracts with 13 YOE. Are there any Googlers here from Lockheed or the Defense Industry? I’m interested in Google and I’m curious to know how things are similar/different: workload, stress, compensation, perks, etc. Thanks in advance!
I’m interviewing for an opportunity with Lockheed Martin in their HR/Recruiting department. All tips are welcome!
Congrats! I'd do a Google search to see if there are any tips out there specific to that company/role. Glassdoor also has interview questions from actual applicants, so that might be another good resource for you. Good luck!
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Lockheed Martin has an overall rating of 4.1 out of 5, based on over 12,956 reviews left anonymously by employees. 83% of employees would recommend working at Lockheed Martin to a friend and 78% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.
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