Lockheed Martin Employee Reviews for Engineer

"I worked at Lucky Martin since May 2019. it is one of the best and most prestigious companies in the United States end. it is a good place for people who want to grow as an engineer."

"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."

"Interesting and varied assignments, not an average job."

What do you like about working at Lockheed Martin?

"Work on cutting edge technology for radar and displays."

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

"Be prepared to ask questions about areas of interest."

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

"Working in a remote location allowed very little interaction with peers and managers while on assignment."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide more feedback on performance review interviews."

What do you like about working at Lockheed Martin?

"Career opportunities and salary."

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

"Don't relay on HR if you have bad employees and deployed, being a manager in OEF or OIF, they haven't a clue!"

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

"Their HR department is out of touch with managers and crew in war time situations. They think as though we are in same building with an office next door. They do not consider war time situations with men's lives in stake and think with an office mind."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"That HR put into account war and men's lives when investigating and not sit in a nice A/C office and think they really know what is going on."