Lockheed Martin reviews

The health insurance is expensive for a family. With government budget cuts, the company is in a cost cutting mode, which means that things such as outside training and conferences are pretty much a thing of the past. It seems that the culture can be a bit too insular, whereby people here don't keep up with outside trends in their areas of expertise.

Performance review system recently "improved" is too complex, not well explained, and hence fraught with more excessive inequities than the previous system. Instructions for entering "commitments" are vague, general, bloated with corporate-speak, and effectively meaningless. End result is that any employee not in favor can always be told that (s)he did not meet expectations. Raises and advancement have very little correlation to ability and performance. Employees often are not used in their areas of expertise. The company has become totally oriented to the bottom line with little to no true concern for the well-being of the employees, although much lip-service is given to the contrary. Employees are pushed in never-ending cycles to meet schedule after overlapping schedule, forced by the "bottom line" to push out shoddy software in order to come in at or below increasingly unrealistic budget constraints.