Lockheed Martin reviews about "upper management"

Upper management is lost. The IT department MIGHT recover once the old leadership retires.

People often try to shift blame or responsibility on others. Some people/departments are very reluctant to change and are bad at communicating. Diversity is lacking at the mid to upper management level.

Does not care about your health: Their immediate response to Covid was to require that any quarantine be taken as vacation, unless you could prove you contracted it at work. When this was made literally illegal in some states the policy was changed to "strongly encouraged" to make it up with overtime, and then reimplemented as soon as those laws expired. Does not care about your career: There are a few experienced technical staff who have been at the company for years. The policy of upper management was that these overworked staff must be on all projects that required technical expertise, and any newer staff were just added expense to be cut. Recent employees therefore had no chance to learn from more experienced staff, as they were not allowed to be on projects with them. More recent employees are also not given any opportunities to develop skills on their own; even if they manage to get a technical position on a project, as soon as upper management noticed they would demand the recent hire be removed and replaced with long-term staff. Recent hires with technical skills are instead used primarily as placeholders, filling a position so that project managers can say that position is filled. They are given little work and removed as soon as a more experience long-term staff member is available. Does not care about your time: You are required to assign all time worked in six-minute increments to projects, reported daily. Due to various bureaucratic problems and improper management, you will regularly be told with no notice that you are no longer on a project and will have to find something else by the end of the day to charge your time to. There is no overhead timecode, so you *must* find another project by the end of the day. Enjoy the regular frantic scramble to find some way to get paid! Does not respect your well-being: The company's other prominent Covid policy was to immediately outlaw all use of video in remote meetings. While other companies were doing everything they could to keep employees connected, Lockheed was declaring that the bandwidth required was too expensive. The software used is also very bad at noting who was speaking, so remote meetings consist of a series of anonymous voices with no associated faces.

-Upper management pats themselves on the back while pushing off promotions for their employees. -Bad leaders up the chain use the Good ol’ Boy system to keep people with million dollar salaries who just take naps at their desk and let their programs fail. -Sometimes given large assignments that managers knew for months last minute and expected to be done in two weeks or less. -Lots of people are leaving right now so every team is a skeleton crew with employees working two/three times what they should be. -Facilities are a wreck post pandemic (raccoons in the office, A/C not working for months, littered with wasp nests, etc).

Upper management doesn't seem to genuinely care about the team, just profit

Upper management disconnect with team/ workers

As with all government jobs there can be a level of bureaucracy involved. However it really depends on what team you are on. The HR can be pretty inflexible, so it is hard to get more than a modest pay raise every year unless you are in upper management. A lot of people will leave Lockheed Martin for a bit and then come back for the salary raise.