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4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(14,549 total reviews)
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James D. Taiclet

82% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Lockheed Martin has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 14,549 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
Jan 5, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Name recognition. If you can become part of the inner boyz club, can do quite well. Large company with offices domestic and international. Good educational assistance program for undergraduate and graduate schools.

Cons

1. Employees treated as numbers. 2. Employee career growth and aspirations are lowest priority for management, despite their rhetoric. Although some internal professional development is available, the quality of instructions and courses are at best mediocare. 3. PRS (Annual Performance) goals are intentionally very vague to allow management to assign any rating they feel without clear recourse for the employee to challenge. PRS ratings are mostly unfair, unless you are part of the inner click. 4. Old boyz network protecting management turf and is mostly incompetent. One of the most top heavy company I worked for; layers and layers of redundant management, producing very little. 5. Managemnet focus is only to save cost and maximize profits at the cost of employee layoffs and else. Low employee morale and attrition rate high even in recent bad times 6. Even though a large company; the opportunity to move within the company as well as career development is limited and hindered by personal politics and favoritism. Employees bid for jobs in the same way as someone applying from outside the company, almost no employee loyalty. 7. HR is a tool for the benefit of enforcing bad management policies. HR nearly always sides with management against employees. 8. A push to move very young inexperienced ELDP candidates to management positions instead of seasoned mid-career professionals 9. Company hires solid candidates from name brand schools, and it promises much at the time of hiring, but delivers very little to its employees. This resultis in attrition. HR knows well about the real causes of attrition yet it consistently fails to acknowledge the real issues of attrition. 10 Lastly they have cut cost on their health insurance benefits coverage. It will now cost significantly more and will cover less!

3.0
Jan 1, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Resources available Fascinating technology Ability to move within groups, find an interesting role

Cons

Not entrepreneurial Easy to get stuck on small part of huge multi-year project

1.0
Dec 30, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Huge company, lots of transfer opportunities if you are in a job that isn't a good fit. Fairly good job security, but layoffs are on the horizon. Good name to have on your resume. If you're coming out of college this could be a good place to work for a year or two, at least until you get a security clearance and can get a better job elsewhere. You don't actually have to be any good at your job if you're good at sucking up to management. I've seen people go months without accomplishing anything of value and not face any consequences. If you're looking for somewhere to coast, Lockheed Martin is paradise.

Cons

Huge "good ole boys" network. Promotions and raises are based entirely on who your friends are within management, and not on how good of a job you do. "Performance" assessments are one "rating" per year based on vague goals like "energize the team" and "shape the future" that are intentionally wide open to interpretation, giving management cover to justify giving any employee any performance rating. Employees who question being asked to do significantly more than other employees without recognition are threatened with termination if they don't put up and shut up. Management insists that Lockheed only hires the best and brightest. That may have been the case at some time in the past, but today many employees are incapable of producing high quality output, and only good at deflecting blame away from themselves when "it hits the fan." These people are usually promoted into management when it becomes impossible to ignore their technical incompetence.

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