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620 reviews
3.0
Jan 22, 2016
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Pros

Good benefits, climate controlled hangars (heat), company supplied tools, lots of company events where food and souvenirs are given out

Cons

extreme lack of aviation experience within management, no aircraft familiarization courses or training provided to employees (with minor exceptions), company supplied tools, management expects and forces certain people to act as leads without officially giving them the title and paying them accordingly, the ACE program has wasted more time and money than it has saved, the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing

3.0
Dec 7, 2015

Great for those in late stage of career

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Great benefits Good for those in later stage of career Slow pace (could be a con, too)

Cons

Slow growth since promotions tend to be based on years of service and not performance, little to no training opportunities, very resistant to change

4.0
Feb 3, 2016

Challenging and Rewarding

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Pros

In my short experience at Lockheed, I've been able to jump between a variety of projects that are vastly different from one another. It's easy to move around and try out research projects or work on mainline business. Many opportunities to work on cutting edge projects.

Cons

The work is difficult and you learn nearly completely through experience. There are not a lot of training opportunities so it really does take some time to feel comfortable with what you're working on. It also means that you have to put in a LOT of hours as an entry level employee, especially toward the end of the year.

4.0
Feb 5, 2016

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Pros

Great company with good benefits. I worked on a military installation as a instructor and course coordinator. Corporate Leadership was engaged in our program and supported its employees. My program manager was one of the best leaders / bosses I've ever worked for.

Cons

LM is a very large corporation engaged in serving the defense industry. At time the human resources personnel seemed out of touch with those on the ground and pushed out redundant HR corporate training materials by the boat load. These programs often took employees away from the important work LM payed us to perform.

4.0
Feb 3, 2016
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Pros

Good start to a career, great experiences in medium-large scale programs, initial graduate salary is okay. Lots of brilliant engineers to learn from. Flexi-time is very good (when project deadlines are not around)

Cons

Lack of actual training (learning on the job is expected). Pay rises are not great at early stages in career. Pay discrepancies between

4.0
Jan 5, 2016

My View

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Pros

Flexibility, ability to work in various areas to gain experience. Training is available to gain knowledge of area where expertise is lacking.

Cons

Many locations are out of sight out of mind. Very much a who you know environment where nepotism often seems to be the norm.

3.0
Feb 2, 2016

Project Manager

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Pros

Good Company with flexibility to move around if you have a good manager

Cons

I transitioned to a position I could not escape from. The work was fabulous, but my manager was not. My biggest mistake my own fault for not paying for external training. I was stuck to a program for seven years and could only get project management or system engineering training, but I am a software engineer and couldn't get any training approved. I was laid off when we lost the contract to GD without any current skills since the my program was ~ 20 years behind the state of the art.

3.0
Nov 25, 2015
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Pros

Being a bigger company they have the financial resources to offer decent training. They have an exciting group of projects to work on and movement within the programs is possible for the right skill sets.

Cons

There seems to be a lot of political games and management make decisions behind closed doors which doesn't instill confidence in teams. Team Leaders and Senior staff often don't have the support they need to manage both people and work. HR is based in US which means any negotiations take longer than they should.

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