Lockheed Martin reviews

4.1

84% would recommend to a friend

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James D. Taiclet

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3.0
Feb 17, 2013
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Pros

Some parts of Lockheed treat their employees very well, very good Ethics department, overall benefits very good

Cons

Lockheed is a very fractured company and i am sure people reading about Lockheed are confused when they read reviews at web sites like this one. Lockheed divisions have different work weeks, pay bands in other works the Salary grades are standardized but the actual high and lows for the same cities can vary 15%. Work week varies, holiday schedule, amount of money you contribute to the health plan as well as the actual plan. Pay for performance merely means you will probably get more than the guy that performs less however they do force managers to put all their employees into groups poor good better best so someone has to be in the poor group pretty much no matter what. Managers are overworked some have 30+ employees to manage in addition to an actual job, plus now managers have to manage employees user accounts and new hires. The current process for reviews LMCommit is roundly hated by everyone but especially managers for them to do their job right for every employee would take weeks of unpaid work.

2.0
Feb 11, 2013
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Pros

1. Compared to other aerospace companies, LM paid higher initially, but then they rip you off big time later 2. If you know how to do something good, you'll be doing it a lot more, and you ain't moving out of that position anytime soon either 3. If you don't know how to do something, just act busy and you'll be promoted to manager very quickly 4. Your performance evaluation has nothing to do with your performance. They already know how much they're going to give you, so putting the min. or go extra and above makes no different 5. Learn how to tell good jokes and eat lunch with the boss because that's the only way to move up at LM... it has nothing to do with how much you know. 6. Incompetent people move up really fast in management track

Cons

1. Incompetence people are in manager positions 2. Positions are broken up into smaller chunks, so they can bill the government more (unethical). This is why defense contracts are always over budget and late. 3. Since you don't get to do what an engineer is supposed to be doing, you are not utilizing your jobs skill at all; eventually you become obsolete, and you can't go work anywhere else because you already lost all of your engineering skills. 4. Don't ever show them that you can do the work for half/quarter of the time because that means they have to show the government that they are efficient, which means less money next contract around... You'll work yourself out of your own job. Innovation and efficiency are prohibited at LM because that's not their business model. Their business model is to milk the GOVT' as much as they can, so if you try to save money for the company you're hurting their bottom line (young engineers make this mistake a lot)

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