Lockheed Martin reviews

- The majority of the Lab Equipment in the Electrical Engineering lab was purchased in the 1970’s. In addition, there is no lab technician or lab manager to organize the lab and maintain the equipment due to budgetary reasons. - Engineers are not given the authority to make decisions or address road blocks. However, Engineers are held responsible for the assigned task by management. - Questionable practices in regard to charging of labor hours to government contracts. - Management refuses to write trip reports or inform the engineers of changes that affect requirements, schedules, or budgets. Engineers must call the customer to determine what changes management has agreed too. In regard to this problem one co-worker pointed out the fact that if a manager does not write it down the manager cannot be held responsible. - The small training budget is generally allocated to the recent college graduates. Long time employees in management positions will admit to never having completed a management training class. In addition, there is no budget or training program for mid level or senior level engineers. - The work is mainly low technology. Challenging high tech work is subcontracted out. - Insubordination issues by employees are not addressed by management in a timely manner. - Unknowingly, two different groups of people will be assigned the same task by the same manager thus duplicating effort. The result is overcharging the customer and over running the project budget. - Management ranks the employees. Rankings are generally dependent on management’s perception or familiarity with the employee as a result the employees at the bottom of the rankings are not necessarily the low performers. Low ranking employees are Involuntary terminated in staff reductions. - Personal vehicles are routinely vandalized in the parking lot. - Medical coverage is reduced by 10% on a yearly basis.

- most programs are not cutting-edge or fast-moving. This means if you stay in one place for too long, you could fail to maintain or develop your skills (despite corporate mantras to "continue learning"). That is career suicide. So you have to frequently look for new experiences to keep you sharp. - on that note, technical challenges are lacking; there's a high dependency on building from heritage. that's low risk, but not really exciting or difficult. it amounts to busy-work. - it's difficult to be widely recognized as a high performer without entering one of the leadership development programs. These exist at several career levels, but I can see how NOT being in one can really hurt your progression here. - if you'd like to move to a smaller company eventually, being at Lockheed could make that difficult. You might become dependent on the processes LM has in place and fail in a smaller company; even if you're great, other companies will certainly fear that this is the case. - Even if varied experiences are easy to find, promotions have decreased in recent years. So you have to push harder for them. - yes, layoffs happen, but they happen everywhere. Make sure you're on a program that's funded.