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4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(14,511 total reviews)
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James D. Taiclet

82% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Lockheed Martin has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 14,511 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Lockheed Martin employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aérospatiale et défense industry (3.6 stars).

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15K reviews
4.0
Jan 13, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Got to work with amazing team members within a team where the work actually "mattered". Managed to use cutting edge technology and freely apply it where needed. Always a great deal of respect between management and team members. Yearly raises, and they dealt with the pandemic very well, allowing for fully remote work. The 4 day workweek is fantastic and should be allowed everywhere else. Having three day weekends is a game-changer. PTO was very decent as well, allowing an overall of 4 weeks of PTO per year. 401K matching is very good.

Cons

Too big of a company to either make a worthwhile impact or to even make changes. There's a big struggle between older, more seasoned employees and younger ones. Even growing Slack adoption is a pain. They are super slow for promotions and retention is not their priority. Substantial raises are rare. They follow strict salary ranges. The Health insurance benefits are HORRIBLE for a company of this size and they should be ashamed. There's cost cutting going on and several people have been laid off. There's constant reorganizations that keep everyone out of place. The new CEO is just a mouth piece who doesn't really have any impact in the day to day, I still have no idea what he's doing but the Marilyn Hewson days were much better.

1.0
Dec 3, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

-The first layer of management is helpful and experienced, though they can't do much to alleviate the problems caused by upper management. -If you want a job where you'll never be asked to do anything useful, this is it.

Cons

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.

1.0
Nov 9, 2021

Toxic work culture

Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay and benefits but not the best in the industry by far.

Cons

Toxic work culture and cutthroat environment

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