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

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857 reviews
4.0
Jun 13, 2008
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Pros

Lockheed Martin provides good pay, benefits, 401k. They do a company match up to a certain % on the money you put into your 401k each week. They also match a certain % of your pay and put it in a separate 401k that is substituted as our pension plan. Being a big company and having jobs all over the country it provides so many opportunities in location, type of jobs. They have leadership programs for less experience employees were they can work about 5 different program and jobs in 3 years related to there jobs skills, which is great to get different experience and to help determine what you want to focus on.

Cons

The politics you have to go through to get something simple done. No pension plan. Poor or no documentation, which makes it a big problem once the system developer is not available.

3.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Lockheed Martin is a very organized and well managed company. They really have their act together. The are the top defense contractor and their level of competency is a big reason for it. The benefits are good and they are active in showing community support. Overall a good place to work, a lot of talented engineers that know how to get the job done.

Cons

Too often the company line is the status quo. Part of the downside of being the top defense contractor is that they tend to stiff their employees on their salaries. Sharing the wealth would promote loyalty among employees and reduce attrition. Lockheed has one of the highest attrition rates and it is not hard to see why. The yearly performance appraisal system can also be long and cumbersome and often result in a 2-5% raise at best. Perhaps sitting down with employees would be a better approach.

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