Lockheed Martin reviews

- Compensation and Benefits less impressive than other companies in related fields, especially if you are in Software Engineering. - Annual raises average 1.5% a year - Level to Level advancement is slow and seems inconsistent. The "HR Minimum" for a Level II is 2 years of experience. When you meet the minimum, you must ask your manager to be considered for a level advancement (comes with substantial increase in pay) and they may push it through. I feel if you have gotten a good performance review for each year, you should be moved up a level, but that is rarely the case. Promotions seem to be subjective and quite frankly looked like there was some favoritism involved. My advice is to just become friends with the Managers and you will go far. - Programs can very from being extremely boring to extremely exciting and cutting edge, you just have to find the "happening" business areas. Aerospace and Space Systems is probably where you want to be. - Facilities are dull and dated- cinderblock construction, windowless rooms, hospital-type lighting.

Parking is awful, if you get to work after 8:00 you’ll have to walk a mile to get to your work area. Pay is high for the area and according to Lockheed “adequate,” but you can make significantly more elsewhere. Facility is really depressing without any type of natural light or windows. Younger software engineers will have a tough time, most of the decisions made on teams come from 20+ years of experience employees with functional programming and poor software design. Lack of younger engineers makes it hard to enjoy being at work. Everything is tied to charging a contract, if there is an event for learning that would be beneficial to you as an employee, you will be forced to do it on your own time and not on company time. Work is not technical enough to keep most young engineers, as my work has become a simple “copy and paste” job without any need of computer science fundamentals.