Lockheed Martin reviews about "manager"

Impossible to get promotion or decent raise without going to another company and then coming back. Engineers are actively encouraged to go somewhere else for a raise. Difficult to navigate career growth unless you want to be a manager.

Long hours, ungrateful managers, no career path.

Salary, really bad managers out number the good ones, very few good HR reps, no training or upward mobility for certain positions or certain level employees

You can get pidgeon-holed into a position and some managers make it hard to move to another area.

Management. Book smart people with no actual hands on experience. Taught or brainwashed to regurgitate same mantras day in day out. Immediate Supervisor should be " tending them rabbits" or unloading feedbags off of trucks. No clue how job is done having never performed job itself. Job is not based on merit or quality. Yearly reviews are based off how hard and long you can stroke the managers. Year end bonuses are gaged on certain metrics being met so 10 percent of workers carry the rest of 90 percent. The good workers effort to finish projects below times are distributed to the ones who can't or won't. Ex: Job budgeted for 150 hours. Good worker finishes job in 100 hours. Does worker get extra for those 50 hours below budget? Nope. Those 50 hours are spread across the rest of those who go over budget to decrease the average so the whole looks good. Yeah, keep that up and good workers see no incentive to produce because whether or not metrics are met everyone gets same bonus at end of year if at all.

HR has been really hands off throughout the process

The company doesn't care about you. Managers are 50/50 and HR is horrible. OSHA violations everywhere causing medical issues with no response and sometimes not even knowing what chemicals you are being exposed to even after having to seek medical attention.

Does not care about your health: Their immediate response to Covid was to require that any quarantine be taken as vacation, unless you could prove you contracted it at work. When this was made literally illegal in some states the policy was changed to "strongly encouraged" to make it up with overtime, and then reimplemented as soon as those laws expired. Does not care about your career: There are a few experienced technical staff who have been at the company for years. The policy of upper management was that these overworked staff must be on all projects that required technical expertise, and any newer staff were just added expense to be cut. Recent employees therefore had no chance to learn from more experienced staff, as they were not allowed to be on projects with them. More recent employees are also not given any opportunities to develop skills on their own; even if they manage to get a technical position on a project, as soon as upper management noticed they would demand the recent hire be removed and replaced with long-term staff. Recent hires with technical skills are instead used primarily as placeholders, filling a position so that project managers can say that position is filled. They are given little work and removed as soon as a more experience long-term staff member is available. Does not care about your time: You are required to assign all time worked in six-minute increments to projects, reported daily. Due to various bureaucratic problems and improper management, you will regularly be told with no notice that you are no longer on a project and will have to find something else by the end of the day to charge your time to. There is no overhead timecode, so you *must* find another project by the end of the day. Enjoy the regular frantic scramble to find some way to get paid! Does not respect your well-being: The company's other prominent Covid policy was to immediately outlaw all use of video in remote meetings. While other companies were doing everything they could to keep employees connected, Lockheed was declaring that the bandwidth required was too expensive. The software used is also very bad at noting who was speaking, so remote meetings consist of a series of anonymous voices with no associated faces.

Large company, easy to get lost in the company. People move often. I had 5 different managers in 2 years and had to train them on what to do in their job each time