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Lockheed Martin reviews

4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(14,505 total reviews)
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James D. Taiclet

81% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Lockheed Martin has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 14,505 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Lockheed Martin employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Luft- & Raumfahrt, Verteidigung industry (3.6 stars).

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15K reviews
2.0
Dec 25, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Looks good on your resume Gets your feet wet if you are early in your career

Cons

Promotion from level 1 to level 2 takes like 2 years. From level 2 to 3 takes like 5 more years. Then expect no more promotion. You don't use anything you learned in school. Same boring mundane tasks. PAR reviews are a joke. There is a competition to see who can work the most overtime. A good-ol-boy military conservative baby-boomers culture that doesn't fit with younger generations. No excitement in your work. A monkey can probably do your job. People don't talk to you. No social life.

1.0
Jul 4, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Most organized company I ever worked for, paid on time good benefits... still not worth it

Cons

You have to agree to all of their political stances, Fox news was on EVERYWHERE. If a customer is bombing people , you have to be ok with it and give them assistance. Felt very forced to push the typical corporate ethics in a war business comitting genocide on people. Not worth your soul, I actually felt it leaving several days.

4.0
Sep 15, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- 4 day 10 hour week shifts - Flex time availability - Occasional snacks - Friendly co-workers - Lots of room and time to grow in topics you are interested in - Tuition and Cert Reimbursement - Good PTO benefits

Cons

- Hawkish Middle and Upper Management and Heavy Corporate Atmosphere: Particularly be weary of the "Old Guard" these are your 60+ year old SWE Managers at this company. Many are out of touch with the new generation, and will put you under the table if you get in their way. There are some managers that only care about their pension and about those that do favors for them. - Questionable Ethics (please see above) despite the annual survey results that say otherwise. - Lethargic on-boarding process due to goverment restrictions: This is universal throughout the corporation and the defense industry, and gets in the way of the AGILE process. However, team-members try to mitigate it by supporting each other. - Contract switching: If you are new developer, or even experienced you are at some risk to become "loaned-out" to another team that may work in another completely different programming language or stack that you were hired for. They will try not to mention this during the interview, but it all depends on how big of a budget the manager has at the moment they hired you.

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