Lockheed Martin reviews about "manager"

Unfortunately, my group was not very helpful towards myself and another new employee. Learn on your own as you go. No formal training. Catch as catch can. My group was wary of the two new people. The woman who was hired with me transferred out of this group to a different facility. Any small mistake would be reported to the manager of the group. I had received great end of year report, but it did not reflect at all in salary. In fact with raising health costs, my paycheck was less than when I started in year one. Many workers outside of this group told me I was in the worst group at that facility, because of the other employees reluctance to answer questions and were also very proprietary with their work. When hired, I was to team with someone who had been there many years and share her workload, but she undermined me every chance she got.

Poor supervisors, poor managers, poor adherence to standards, poor corporate structure (too siloed), poor to nonexistent mentorship, no compassion for work force as long as work gets done. No backbone from leadership to hold union accountable for their side of the collective bargaining agreement.

A few of their managers have no training or experience and should not have been put in their position.

Limited/no support from managers. Annual review process can have little value. Managers can discover no roadmap for success. To be fair, LM is a huge company with many sites and cultures; pick wisely.

It's a great place to work, however to many meetings

Occasionally too much focus on assigning blame than developing solutions.

Management does not promote work-life balance.

Our VP drove down contracts and had losses yet she got outlandish bonuses! For the largest defense contractor they don't do a good job or retraining or redeploying employees when a contract ends

May no longer be a good place for long term employment. The company now favors hiring lower level personnel and giving them higher level responsibilities in order to save money for stockholders. They have eliminated the pension plan. Within certain departments, it's still a boy's club.