Lockheed Martin reviews about "manager"

Management is filled with "yes men & women." Rarely will someone in middle management stand up to senior managers.

Too many managers for my liking.

Too many managers to report to at times.

Poor customers. Big drive to make cheap products + unwillingness to fight customer requirements = bad products. Company bureaucracy can make change hard. Managers are powerless to fix compensation issues.

Transparency. If you weren't upper-middle to upper management you would have no clue as to what possible future or road-map was being planned out for the department. And yes, much of that could be attributed to financial allocation from the government, but being told from management "I don't know what might be in the near future" only to hear other managers in the restroom talking about that very future does little to reinforce my faith in leadership.

Lack of innovation and thought leadership; focus appears to be on serving customers the same way we always have, without providing much "above and beyond." Our internal information technology is consistently 10 years behind the time. Company does not seem to be forward-looking, in spite of recent announcements of breakthrough technologies in fields such as fusion power and quantum computing. Company appears beholden to the shareholders alone, and the quarterly earnings call is paramount. Company / CEO have almost zero long-term focus, and that thinking permeates with things like R&D spending and employee training, which is non-existent. As a result, many managers are obsessed with their immediate profit/loss, and that trickles down to ridiculous unpaid overtime mandates on staff. In spite of downturn in government spending, company has shown little to no motivation to pursue commercial markets; emphasis is on international governments which are also fiscally constrained. Medical benefits are terrible, the worst I've ever had. Premiums, deductibles and co-insurance limits for a family would make almost anyone cringe.

Unless you work on the top development programs, things move slowly at Lockheed Martin due to the very hierarchical organizational structure. Some of the more veteran employees tend to be resistant to change which can make your life difficult. Depending on who your rotation manager is, your rotation could be the best experience of your young career or the most boring as workloads can vary

Work can be a bit mundane, and vacation time usually cannot be used.