Lockheed Martin reviews about "manager"

Managers don’t listen to employees

Can take a while to get spun-up on a new program. Being a huge corporation means some thing slip through the cracks and the focus isn't always on individual employees (sink or swim mentality - you have to reach out and grab your own opportunities a lot of the time). Promotions can be a little subjective (they rely mostly on who your manager is and how many years you've been with the company, not necessarily just performance).

Coming in, I was under the impression I would work the electrical portion of cool new technology.....that never happened. I can't even get Matlab or Altium....not that I would need them for my assignments. The workload consists of non-technical documentation and such. More time and money is spent on powerpoint slides and spreadsheets than anything else. Huge, inefficient company full of dinosaurs that built their empires and have a firm good ole boys club. No wonder they have high turn-over.

No cons yet, other than the lack of gain vacation time

Managers are unfamiliar with their direct reports.

The recruiter was absolutely horrible. Lack of communication, zero. People decline offers like I did because of my recruiter.

This what I saw on the 2 legacies programs and a new one I worked on. Bad functional managers, toxic work culture set by older management riding the clock for the last 15 years. The environment is stuck back 20 years is really a sustainment place, silo programs , very compartmentalize and very few new programs and the new programs the main positions are given to internal people (favoritism) that don’t have the experience/skill set for such tasks which basically creates reaction management NO planning is bad (like me mentor used to say the blind leading the blind), never seen so much incompetence. Sustainment programs are set by tribal knowledge which are just people hoarding information and they keep riding the clock. There’s not much HW design that I saw they are an Integrator so the suppliers deliver the electronic boxes main things are cables, break out boxes basically what my technicians or interns in other companies do. There’s few Basic CCA designs and those jobs are given to the favorites. I like the people and the company however me and other people that came from other companies with lots of direct experience realize is a bad place since we won’t learn as much, will be pigeon hole , the culture and frustration from inept technical leads ( not all but most) drove us away. I just waited over a year to move on back to my previous company the short time I was there never really saw people smile or crack a joke which told me a lot.

Experience is team and manager dependent