Lockheed Martin reviews about "manager"

Promotion schedule is based on seat time, not merit. Its very demoralizing to watch people who do nothing and sleep at work get promoted just because they've been there longer. Younger engineers carry a large workload and are rarely rewarded while many staff engineers slack off, watch TV, or sleep at work. Managers move employees around to different teams without asking employees first (so you end up doing a different job than you were hired for). Raises don't keep up with high inflation and economic situation. Tuition assistance for higher education is less than what other aerospace companies offer. Stale and old boys' club culture. Management makes ego-based decisions. If you're a young, intelligent, and a dynamic person with personality, you'll be lonely--and won't be allowed to rise to your full potential here because you have to "wait your turn" before anyone will listen. Pays significantly less than newer aerospace companies. Young and mid-level ambitious engineers are unhappy and leaving in droves... and getting promoted and paid as they deserve at other companies. Lots of the older men here have sexist opinions, especially of women in STEM roles. It's a difficult environment to work in if you're diverse at all. Management "contracts" out employees in their functions to different programs, so they rarely interact with their own employees, often have no idea what their employees are working on, and this hurts employees during review season (the employees who are put in roles that work near management get higher raises--favoritism plays a big part). The more useful you are, the more you're moved around to different programs, and the less your managers know you, which means you ironically get the lowest raises.

Very typical large corporation problems, e.g. very easy to get pigeon-holed, excessive bureaucracy, company politics, etc. Experience can vary widely depending on what function and program you support. Most managers are good (or at least fair) but there are a few bad apples here and there. Now that the pandemic is dying down, onsite attendance (at least for Grand Prairie) for office workers has become strictly optional which is advantageous for some people but bad for folks that want more in-person engagement and workplace community.

Salaries lower than average, slow to promote/advance, individual experiences vary greatly depending on business area and direct manager(s)

The are no cons to working here

Review system does not align with program managers sometimes

Some managers have yet to embrace the current work climate when speaking about remote work. In some orgs, employees are being asked to be physically at work three days a week to spend all their time on Skype calls

Workload can be minimum at times, just the nature of working on govt contracts. Don’t expect to be fully engaged during your work day. What you get out of planning in terms of career growth solely depends on the projects your assigned. If a program is in sustainment mode don’t expect much in terms of meaningful work. Strive to work on new development projects where planning can really shine. Hardware requirements lists are pointless and the production planners can do it. Alls you do is just take their data and put it in a different template. You are expected to run the computer in meetings and take notes. If your not good at that don’t pursue this career. It’s not in the job description, but expect to do it. For some reason program managers can’t take their own notes and record action items since planners are expected to do this. If you don’t like do this do not apply.