Lockheed Martin Staff Software Engineer reviews

Middle management is spineless. Pay raises are minimal, benefit costs to employees continue to rise above yearly salary raises. Management continues to expect more and more from employees, by demanding uncompensated overtime and weekend work. Refusal to comply results in Performance Improvement Plans and high pressure to conform to demands. Program Management continually under fund projects and then tell engineers that they are being "challenged" to meet unrealistic deadlines despite being told their expectations are unrealistic. Engineering principles are ignored to achieve the unrealistic schedules. Employees are undervalued and the reality that key individuals are leaving is not important to Management as they are more interested in meeting staffing levels than retaining intellectual knowledge base. At one time this was a good place to work. It has deteriorated with the loss of Senior Management from the CEO level down. Morale is at an all time low. Flex time has been eliminated, working here is like criminal chain gang labor.

This is not the place to be for Software Engineers. Lockheed is a Systems Engineering organization with very little software engineering expertise. Software is considered a tool like Matlab... so leadership has no appreciation for good design. Most of the people writing software are educated in other disciplines (ex. Electrical, Mechanical, Aeronautical Engineering). That would be fine except for the fact that 1000's of lines of unmaintainable code are written every year.