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Lockheed Martin Software Developer reviews

4.0

84% would recommend to a friend

(857 total reviews)
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James D. Taiclet

87% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Lockheed Martin with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 857 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Lockheed Martin is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Luft- & Raumfahrt, Verteidigung industry (3.6 stars).

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857 reviews
1.0
Nov 13, 2017

Severely Lacking in Good Practice!

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Pros

Cafeteria closes up, leaves free coffee at end of the day. It is a great learning experience for dealing with less-than-ideal circumstances with inexperienced coworkers.

Cons

Lockheed Martin Canada is the worst company I have worked at. The people with the authority over projects make decisions without any good practices or engineering analysis. The pay is not competitive to say the least and being popular with coworkers is valued over technical excellence. Requirements do not exist and the agile methodology has been distorted to some abomination of project management that hardly manages the project at all. Be prepared to be the only contributor who hits his deadlines, Becauses milestones or satisfying the customer do not matter here.

1.0
Nov 10, 2017

Career Suicide

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Pros

cool products, good work-life balance

Cons

My advice is to avoid this place like the plague unless your goal is to coast until retirement while working on extremely outdated tech. As an engineer, working at Lockheed for more than about 5 years is career suicide if you have aspirations to work at a real tech company. You would have been working on tech that was cutting edge 20 years ago. Prospective future employers who do actually contact you will certainly ask "Why did you work at Lockheed Martin?" in a way that sounds like "Why did you work at a garbage dump?" The implication is that you're supposed to defend why you worked at such a bad company filled with mostly lazy people who want to coast until retirement. You'll have to explain that you were one of the few people who weren't like the majority there. Additionally, Lockheed only values how many years you have been working, and merit is completely ignored by management. Anyone smart quickly leaves and every location I visited was filled with only old people about to retire along with a small number of clueless new college hires who haven't caught on to how bad their job is yet. It was my first job but luckily I escaped after realizing what this place was about without too much damage to my career.

5.0
Nov 7, 2017

Software Engineer

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Pros

Amazing place to work. Co-workers that help you any way they can.

Cons

The hectic environment to get things approved.

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