Lockheed Martin reviews about "manager"

Career progression to all but mostly grad students.

Senior managers and directors seem to have favorites and some people are in positions they don’t have the experience for. But it’s based off of who you know and how you get along. Promotions are not always fair and some people tend to get picked that do not deserve a promotion compared to the people that work endless hours to meet program needs.

As a veteran, I have a strong commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement. Unfortunately, I experienced firsthand how integrity can be punished rather than rewarded. Alongside more than 15 colleagues, I raised serious concerns about a senior manager who consistently bypassed engineering and quality in critical planning decisions. This not only fostered a toxic work environment but also compromised product safety. Despite escalating these concerns to HR, Ethics, and even a VP, no meaningful action was taken. Our claims were dismissed as unsubstantiated. However, when these same issues were reported to our customer (DCMA), the concerns were validated. A dedicated team spent months correcting the resulting process failures. Despite this, the senior manager faced zero accountability and was quietly reassigned to another site in the same role. Meanwhile, those of us who spoke up were marginalized. I believe my commitment to doing the right thing played a part in how poorly I was treated. It became clear that protecting leadership took priority over supporting the workforce—or even ensuring the safety of the aircraft and those who fly them. If you're someone who values ethics, collaboration, and transparency, this may not be the right environment for you. Leadership accountability and psychological safety remain major areas for improvement.

Older technology, not what I picture from the name Lockheed Martin.

- Very old facility full of roaches and filth - The union leadership is both hostile and incompetent, adding to a bad working culture on both the hourly and salaried side. Shop stewards hardly know the CBA, the leaders filch dues, and they get nothing done. Union doesn't care about the company, only self-preservation - Management often in a state of panic. Rapidly shuffling managers makes the work pace chaotic and stressful - The bathrooms are criminally filthy and undermaintained - Nothing gets fixed, everything is old and run-down - Extremely cumbersome legacy processes and multi-department checklists bog everything down in the multi-year timeframe

Managers do not provide enough tasks for working level engineers to meaningful contribute.

Can be high stress and lacking direction or support for promotion and growth.

management is always changing and you may get terrible managers people who need to be cut, get to stay and waste money, while hardworkers get cut.

- facility is pretty old