Lockheed Martin Communication Systems Engineer reviews

no growth opportunity and job specific skills

Standardized policies and procedures restrict your ability to efficiently perform your role, duties, and provide your clients with the best results. Pay should be a reflection of you ability, and results, following all the guidelines and processes can slow and hamper your growth. Your opportunities are limited by geographic locations, pay by contact pricing, and negotiated starting pay. The government contracting and work is all related to competing with other organizations that can low ball a contract, which affects the pricing of employees, as long as you have a contract and perform the required duties and perform you have job security, when the contracts end, your unemployed or redeployed in a new location. In essence you are a temp workers fulfilling a contract at a specified place and time, once the work ends you must relocate to a new contract area and position, you need to stay well rounded and keep the educational aspects of your carreer in focus with the demands of the marketplace. Accept the fact you may have to uproot your family, and depending on your marketablity and competition for placement you may have to accept a pay that does not fit with your families needs and requirements.