Lockheed Martin Reviews

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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.

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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.

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- 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.

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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

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.

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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

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- 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

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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.

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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.

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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.