Lockheed Martin reviews about "training"

No free parking, poor management, lack of investment from business, do not believe in training staff, lack of sales, high staff turnover, below market wages.

If you are at a smaller site it can be challenging to advance without relocating. Overall I don't have many negative comments about working here.

Operations tempo and deadlines can lead to high hour weeks and months along with weekend work. In addition, due to the worldwide commitments, work travel can become a required necessity rather than an occasional opportunity.

Some remnants of 'good ol boy' club attitudes around here, but LM is actively trying to become a modern, attractive company to new employees. As with every company I've ever heard of, diving into something can be a little overwhelming with limited organized training, but coworkers are generally available for support.

Constantly hearing about 'affordability' and 'alignment' made me sick. Holiday parties, family picnics, even plastic silverware and coffee are now a thing of the past despite $40B+ yearly profits. Talk about poor financial management and a major hit to employee morale. A lack of growth opportunities if you are not a minority or a female... the executive leadership team made a 180 change to nearly all female in the 8 years I was employed there. Females are absolutely capable of performing any job, but Lockheed Martin took this to an unethical extreme. Promotions are much more difficult to come by than they should be. I was promoted to a senior systems integration analyst, but was move to Lockheed Martin's SWIFT financial ledger for no legitimate reason. This cost me $15k in yearly salary and a day of vacation each year. It was the final thing that caused me to look for employment elsewhere. Speaking of that, I found a job at an 87% increase in pay, so don't let them keep convincing you that they pay 'competitively'. That 'total value' the speak of is garbage... health insurance premiums are through the roof compared to other employers and the employee out of packet maximums are absurd. I must also mention that when I left (on good terms with a previous 3 years' rating of '1', which is the highest possible), I was hassled for repayment of the tuition assistance I received. Lockheed Martin also tried to illegally deny my wife health coverage the week after I left (premiums are paid a week in advance), and I had to appeal to them, which I won... although I got a nasty email from the LM service center.

I worked in 2 departments and received very little to no training in each. The simulation and analysis work I was doing in MATLAB wasn't hard, but understanding the results of the simulations required a lot of expertise. There is no documentation, you can't Google it, it's not intuitive at all. Therefore you NEED someone who has the experience to train you. My department was struggling to maintain employees because we didn't have that experience. I ended up leaving because everything became a guessing game.

Canada is a branch office, US centric attitude, contributions from Canada are ignored/minimized/ used without any ackowledgement.

No training. Poor benefits. Pay is not based on performance but political. Highly political environment. Not a good place if you are looking to grow your career. There is a "not invented here" attitude. Employees are disposable commodities. LMT has a very high overhead structure that provides little to no value to their Customers. Upper management is so arrogant that they tell the Customers one thing and do the exact opposite. Upper management is more interested in their own advancement rather than the Company's or the Customers.

Poor training, inconsistent management styles, progression too structure- based on length of experience rather than merit