Lockheed Martin reviews

- Job Security - Great Benefits - (contributed to 2 master's degrees, many employee discounts, healthcare, savings plans, etc) - Opportunity to gain experience across multiple domains due to large number of programs to work on in DC area - Great ethics program - Hard work is typically rewarded - Work is not monotonous, always something different - Great mentoring program - I've had some great bosses - Intense programs available for people with large amounts of energy - Great work/home balance (flex time, work from home, etc) - If you communicate with your boss what you're looking for many will help you find a path to get there - Great training programs to take advantage of

Best employer in Orlando. Good pay, 3 weeks vacation starting, every other Friday off. Good place for starting engineer's career. Might want to move on after some experience, though, because LM is an old traditional DoD contractor that values longevity over performance. If you've done the same job for 10 years, that qualifies you for promotion, regardless of how good/bad you performed. Very risk-averse company - the motto is "never do anything that you haven't done before". Also, the old traditional way of making money in DoD contracts still applies. (1) Lowball the bid to win the contract; (2) Overrun cost and miss delivery schedule; (3) Get beat up by Govt for (2); (4) Panic and throw people and resources at the program to recover (with the Govt providing additional funding to facilitate this, which was kinda the objective all along); (5) Deliver product at a major loss to company (since you underbid in (1)); (6) Make up for (5) by getting Govt to fund massive logistics/support/repair contract to keep product working in field. (7) Repeat above steps ad infinitum.