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4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(14,505 total reviews)
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James D. Taiclet

82% 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
Jul 30, 2018

Incompetent management

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Pros

Salary is high and competitive

Cons

It's a behemoth of a company that is old and set in its ways. Upper management and leaders of the company only care that its image is good enough to make it onto marketing materials or for a corporate interview about how they care about veterans, the disabled, or the environment; most of the day-to-day runnings of the departments are by lower-to-middle management and they are often incompetent, small-minded, and corrupt. Most do not care about their staff; they only care about looking good in the Stay-Green Meetings (whether a project is on track), and upper management doesn't care about how the manager got those numbers, as long as they're in the green. This is a company that will not fire a manager for sexual harassment or staff complaints or other egregious actions but will reassign him or her instead. In some segments of industry they say they are cutting edge but in fact are mired in outdated thoughts and processes.

2.0
Jul 20, 2018

Just a Number

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Pros

Flexibility such as leaving early for appointments, working from home time to time when needing house maintenance, etc. This is a pro and con: on my teams, micromanagement has been minimal as the teams I have been are so spread out that everyone is a 2 - 10 min walk away and leads tend to be in meetings 80% of the day. (The Orlando office is gigantic. About 1/3 mile from one side of the facility to the other.)

Cons

High management to employee ratio on smaller teams. Leads tend to be hard to get a hold of and sometimes you have as many leads as employees. They system of management sets work up so that teams are intentionally kept apart and that management is the only proper means of communication. My belief is that this setup is designed for their larger projects which are over 60% of their contracts but they try to apply the same design across the board. However, it just causes chaos on small teams and breaks down communication when partner teams (electrical, systems, software, I&T) can't work together directly. Maybe this works better on larger projects like their F-16 contract which I believe is 50% of their revenue (public data). Skill doesn't necessarily bring about leadership. Many times people are asked to apply online if they want to move up to a higher position instead of just being given promotions based. When problems occur, whether corrective action is taken is dependent on who's in your chain of command and who the complaint is about. Many times double standards are held if the issue occurs with a lead even if documentation can be provided. Common consensus seems to be LM is just a big company, its just what happens and you accept it. (Many LM employees have also only ever worked at LM)

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