Lockheed Martin reviews

4.1

84% would recommend to a friend

(1,991 total reviews)
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James D. Taiclet

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73% positive business outlook

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1.0
Sep 11, 2013
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Pros

The pay is okay. There really aren't many other pros that I can think of. They're a large company, and some people might like that.

Cons

There is zero opportunity for growth. The company is in decline and the senior management either don't care, or just want to squeeze every ounce of blood out of it before it dies. It won't go any time soon, mind you, but it will go. The amount of process that one has to go through to get ANYTHING done is nothing short of staggering. Process, schedule and cost come before anything else. While Lockheed hasn't been caught up in any recent ethics scandals, they apply very little ethics in how they treat their employees. They are not reinvesting any money in the company. At all. You can't even get them to buy a paperclip, never mind the proper equipment for the engineers to do their jobs. To sum it up: Poor management, no reinvestment, treating the employees like crap, no vision and management by process have brought a once great company to its knees.

4.0
Sep 10, 2013

LMCO

Anonymous employee
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Pros

LMCO stresses a work life balance and actually follows through.

Cons

The review process for performance ratings is ever changing. The system is a modified version of Forced Rankings.

4.0
Sep 6, 2013
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Pros

- This company is one of the most innovative and leads the world in defense weaponry and aerospace engineering. - Most promote the core values of strong leadership, respect for one another, and strong direction. - You will get as much responsibility as you are willing to take on.

Cons

- Some employees want to be impossible and will make your life impossible simply because they are miserable and unfortunately they are in a position to do so. - Not a strong work/life balance, finding myself working 70 to 80 hours per week. - This company will never admit that a schedule or budget is not possible so the work atmosphere tends to be high stress, with management always believing specific tasks and budgets are feasible when from the get go they were clearly not. - Non-technical management makes the Master Schedule and provides the budgets with usually very little engineering input which makes for way over-blown budgets and missed milestones.

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