Lockheed Martin reviews about "upper management"

to get converted to permanent be prepared to be asked to take a pay cut. no matter how hard you work it never seems to be enough

As most government contractors, work is stop and go

Remote working options seem to be relegated to upper management only

Upper management makes lots of changes on short notice.

- 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.

Upper management really needs guidance

Working on government contracts Upper management

Lots of approvals for promotions so hard to get Not many opportunities to make moves around in different roles if you're remote Many work a lot of overtime including holidays and weekends Lots of Bureaucracy Many levels of approval required to make any changes in processes Many times upper management doesn't know how work is done or if there's any career enrichment and don't take the time to know their employees. They make decisions without really considering the effects on the levels below.

Upper management can be very one sided on decisions.