Working at Lockheed Martin in Marietta, GA: 32 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Marietta, GA Area

"Great company! A lot of opportunity for growth!"

"Lockheed Martin is a great company that does important work for the Department of Defense. They employ highly motivated and intelligent people at all times. They expect the absolute best from their employees because failure from their employees puts the lives of multiple groups of people in danger. Anyone who is interested in working with the Department of Defense would do great at Lockheed Martin"

"Great experience from this company! My internships offered many learning and hands-on opportunities. Culture is great and everybody is smart and friendly!"

"Large company, with great benefits, good work life balance, 980 schedules. Cons are non diverse management, good ole boy system of promoting."

"Your experience will vary based on your division, location, program, and functional area. It has a reputation as a great place to start a career but new employees may tire of the lack of rewards. It has a reputation of managing via zero tolerance policies and mass layoffs. This is sloppy and frustrating. Overall, the company culture is changing due to the economic environment around defense."

"I thoroughly enjoyed working at Lockheed Martin in Marietta."

"Slow promotional opportunity. Due to Government cut backs Lockheed is currently back filling all promotional opportunities with personnel from closed departments in other business units."

"Great company to work for. Very good benefits and have the best in mind for there employees."

"My overall experience has been good."

What do you like about working at Lockheed Martin?

"I love this company. It has management that cares about the people that work here and they let you do your job without looking over your shoulder constantly."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"They are easy to interview with. Be 100% truthful when you answer questions because many positions here require security clearances and background checks and if you lie, they will find out and that will be the end for you here. They will not hit you up with trick questions and stupid crap. They just want to get a feel for who you are and where you will best fit in. Oh, and if you hated your last job as much as I did, don't tell them that. Just say I am looking for better opportunities or a different direction."

What don't you like about working at Lockheed Martin?

"Sometimes the schedules can be hectic and they might force overtime with little notice, which can be disruptive to your personal life, BUT they do not do it very often. A few times a year at most, so it is not too bad and if you really have a legit reason for not working it, the managers are flexible. A far cry from my last gig at Raytheon."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More employee-union-management get togethers on improving efficiency and safety at work."

"A decade-plus of bureaucratic nonsense, underpayment, and HR quotas. Wasted years."

What do you like about working at Lockheed Martin?

"Thanks to the company's size and strategic hiring (i.e., former generals, admirals, colonels, etc.), they've basically captured the Pentagon, so all the really big projects have at least a touch of Lockheed."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't. You'll waste years of your life and lose years of income growth. Stay away from Lockheed!"

What don't you like about working at Lockheed Martin?

"Grossly bureaucratic, upper management is clueless at the micro level and dishonest at the macro level. Managers are held to strict performance rating quotas, basically only one person a year is allowed to have a top rating. HR forces everybody else into the piddling-raise, no-promotion range, then tells the managers to lie about what really happened (the good managers tell you anyway). It's a fundamentally broken company, with massive layers of entrenched dead wood that upper management refuses to deal with. Lies from upper management (VP and above) are standard issue, but that doesn't keep them from sanctimoniously preaching about ethics. VPs preach about cost savings, but fly first-class for grip-and-grins on a weekly basis while denying mission-critical travel to the people who do actual work. Training is strictly CYA stuff so the lawyers can say We told them so! Actual technical training is nil, and management/financial training is terrible. Management by intimidation is widely practiced. HR is terrible; recently they've started doing Mickey-Mouse stuff like requiring salaried professionals to clock in and out with their badges; this is obviously the run-up to a big layoff, and they're trying to generate easy firings to keep from paying severance (HR is staffed with idiots, and apparently they believe engineers are just as stupid as they are). Company is top-heavy with older lifers who will take whatever meager crumbs management doles out. 2% raises are the standard, but the old coots who've never worked anywhere else will just say, 'be glad you have a job!'. Management openly tells employees they should accept the lousy conditions and subpar pay because 'you can't get a job anywhere else.' They're delusional; I had a new job with a giant raise within days of starting to look around. Only regret was waiting as long as I did to jump ship. There's going to be a HUGE exodus of talent once people realize the don't have to put up with Lockheed's BS."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Fire yourselves. And short of that, stop making corrupt deals with the Obama Administration to sell out your employees."

What do you like about working at Lockheed Martin?

"The benefits and pay are excellent at Lockheed Martin. The facilities are also top notch."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Understand and know how to play the game of office politics."

What don't you like about working at Lockheed Martin?

"The politics involved with working at such a large company can be quite overwhelming at times."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"We have far too many employees on indirect pay to be competitive (labor rate wise) with many other Defense contractors."

"It was a great company to work for at the time."

What do you like about working at Lockheed Martin?

"Great benefits. I had a great manager who listened to my ideas."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Wear a tie. Get internships because that will help you get in the system."

What don't you like about working at Lockheed Martin?

"The culture is antiquated. There is a 'this is the way we've done it for years' type of attitude."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get rid of the 'this is how we've always done it' culture within senior engineers."

"Good place to work, but creativity is not actively rewarded."

What do you like about working at Lockheed Martin?

"I loved being able to work on (arguably) the greatest fighter jet in the world."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Learn the chain of command, document all communications and activities, and push hard to make ideas acknowledged."

What don't you like about working at Lockheed Martin?

"The rigidity of government contracting and the 'this is how we've always done things' mentality made it difficult to foster new ideas using new technologies."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I'd suggest that management become more apt to supply its workers with current computing tools and equipment on a more timely basis."

"Great company to work for with some of very best programs."

What do you like about working at Lockheed Martin?

"My managers look up to me and let me responsible for my projects."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Great company to work for but it should be your second job (you should have 14 years with other company first)."

What don't you like about working at Lockheed Martin?

"Budget cuts every year and don't know which project gets cut first."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Not a lot to say about DOD contracts but once contract ended so does all the good people."