Lockheed Martin reviews about "layoff"

I survived 14 years of threatened quarterly layoffs including one where a reorg put me under a manager who immediately put me on the layoff list. I was saved by a different manager who actually used my work product to fulfill a program contractual requirement and knew that nobody could replace me. Employees are managed awfully much like a cattle drive with binge hiring and binge firing and no interest in training. You'll eat dust and like it! Manager positions go unfilled even when existing managers try to twist arms and offer encouragement. The smart people know it's a trap and say no - even the ones identified as high-potential employees who are given special nurturing. A few of us retirees have occasional lunch with still-working employees. Apparently the environment has not improved and new employees only last a few months before shaking the LM dust off their feet and moving on. There is no sense of team nor collegiality within so the still-employed have to look outside for some social contact . Not an iota of understanding of "social capital" to be found. I put up with it so my chronically ill wife could get treatment. When she died - I was done with LM.

reorg layoffs, not a lot of training offered

Good ol boy network of managers (think Golf playing, Country Club, the "in" zip code or residential subdivision, Smoking Area clique, etc). When the layoffs and restructurings come which they do often, if you don't suck up to the Manager du jour you will be the first ones to go without any consideration for skill set or job performance.

Lack of diversity in leadership. Leadership often does not stand by employees. Completely disorganized. Constantly rolling out new company-wide initiatives that never pan out. Work-life balance isn't the greatest. Pay is low compared to market. Benefits package has declined. Lots of nepotism, favoritism, and lack of advancement for the hard-working. Talent is often overloaded with work while under-performers aren't reprimanded. HR works against employees, ethics board is a joke and retaliation is rampant when wrongdoing is reported. Constant layoffs. Advancement is nearly impossible. If you are forward-thinking, creative, and looking to grow, avoid Aeronautics all together. Nine times out of ten you will be doing work that does not correlate to your skills--or doing work that does nothing to grow or enhance your competences.

Management is sloppy and disorganized/ financial issues and layoffs are always discussed.

There were constant Layoffs there.

No stability, layoff and recalls are common and expected, management has rigid mentality and approach "always done it that way" mentality

Very hard to change how things operate, yearly fear of layoffs, large silos.