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      Lockheed Martin Staff Software Engineering reviews

      3.9

      82% would recommend to a friend

      (121 total reviews)
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      James D. Taiclet

      79% approve of CEO

      62% positive business outlook

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      Software Engineering Staff employees have rated Lockheed Martin with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 121 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineering Staff professionals have a good working experience there. Lockheed Martin is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineering Staff professionals compared to other employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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      121 reviews
      4.0
      Mar 19, 2014

      Lockheed Martin was a pretty good place to work for nearly 25 years

      Senior staff software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Lockheed had good medical, dental and insurance benefits. There was quite a variety of projects and technologies due to the large size of the company.

      Cons

      Like most defense companies, they have been cutting expenses and that means asking employees to pay a bigger share of insurance costs. Although there are a large number of locations and opportunities, it's not always easy to move between companies and projects.

      1.0
      Mar 6, 2014

      Diverse work that can be fun and challenging.

      Staff software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Benefits, time off, and pay are good. Work is diverse and interesting. Lots of good and bright people in most areas.

      Cons

      Work life balance is non existent. Have been working 10+ hours a day for close to 3 years now and have been under threat of layoff for all of them. Have tons of vacation that I can't use and keep on losing. Difficult to transfer between jobs. There is no training budget.

      1.0
      Feb 21, 2014

      If you have brains and talent, don't waste your time here

      Staff software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      This company is good for young engineers recently out of college, as long you get on a project with modern technologies (otherwise, you really are wasting your time/skills). They pay well in the beginning, but one you reach level 3, get out. Management at this company thinks nothing of abusing technical staff to work 60+ hours a week to meet contract deadlines that should never have been agreed to. And once you reach level 4, your peers in the non-military/government world will be making much more than you.

      Cons

      Very political. Senior technical people got to their positions not because of actual technical skills, but because of politics. A couple that I know run enterprise level Java SOA projects, and they've never written a line of Java code before! A huge wave of older senior managers (who were good) level the company within the last 5 years, and their replacements (VPs and directors) were promoted too far too fast, and are doing a god-awful job. Market share continues to plummet, being lost to smaller more agile companies. And LM has been losing an alarming number of ECP/follow-on contracts, largely due to delivery very low quality products.

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