Lockheed Martin reviews about "training"

No training Company is now being VERY stingy with promotions Performance review process is not transparent Slow pace Conservative culture Low salary for job description and location Dearth of opportunities not related to Earned Value Management, which is not a skill transferable to any other industry worth mentioning

The best talent does not stay long. Experienced professionals come from other competitors and not from within the company. Training for employees is not as frequent or available as before.

Defense and Space industry dynamics (current administration, state of government, who was primary customer of a lot of the products) has resulted in a huge market downturn that although LM is trying to stay the main leader in the sector (and so far, is the leader), the future is grim because customers (military, government, commercial) just don't have as many projects (nor can they afford it) as before. So companies like LM have really had to adapt (read: shrink, consolidate, and make cuts) which have affected employee morale (negatively). The removal of pension accrual after 2016 and 2020 and cuts to retiree medical benefit, plus the overly cumbersome Performance Review system (designed to keep post-layoff liability to a minimum perhaps), plus the non-competitive wages for the AREA (not the defense industry sector, but the geographic area) has driven many younger and mid-career employees' attrition, while late-career employees either have to try to 'hang on' until retirement is feasible or at maximum benefit (the most pension you can get at that point, since it won't increase any more with more years of service). Facilities are closing (and will continue to close) in the coming few years, which will translate to more headcount reduction. But it's really the lack of the country's space projects (in last 10 years) that have made this company less attractive to many. For prospective job seekers: something I did not expect working here was the negative reputation this company is associated with the peaceniks. (Although I think misinformed), weapons protesters are not uncommon and I've had friends drop association with me for the connection (even though I worked on Space projects.)

- Management doesn't care about employees at all. treat you like a cog in a machine that can be replaced easily. - Benefits are horrible and defined pension plan is gone and good luck figuring how to do better with 401k. - Health insurance is bad and getting worse. - No advancement at all. Stuck pretty much where you join. Also pay raises are bad. Give everyone coming in the door a raise but screw over all current employees (treating you like cookie cutter). - Don't listen to anything you say unless it is what they want to hear. They will treat you bad to make numbers or work you into the ground so they fail then justify to hire more people after the fail and they have burned you out. - Have you work the extra hours (as salary) and then if you don't use in that week you lose the chance to take some of the extra hours banked off later. (Work life balance is not here) - Training is non-existent. Fight tooth and nail every year to get any. Even in the cyber security world where you need for professional certs good luck in getting unless you are a buddy. - Evals are large company usual 10% outstanding and 80% normal and 10% dirt bag. Every year no matter what. Waste a lot of time for almost no raise and writing up just bunk to not get the bottom 10% (they already know who the favorite is and going to be in top 10%) - They only do enough (in cyber security) not to get into trouble. Unless you are the chosen few no chance to actually do anything interesting. Just going thru the motions to make it look good. Never listen to what anyone tells them things are not right. Just wear you down to where you stop saying anything to them about how bad things are. - Overall they just don't care about employees and they don't like being told what they are doing wrong. management is just out for themselves and will throw you under the bus in seconds. Any good managers leave as soon as they see how things are going. Employees always feel under the gun that the boss will ride you because they don't like you or won't go with what they want. Company has been going down hill for sometime and seems to be picking up speed. Glad to leave and happy with new company.

can get lost in the shuffle

Process intensive, legacy technologies/systems, difficult to inject new concepts/ideas/technologies, not engineering focused due to the nature of some government contracts

-ZERO investment in increasing talent of employees (no more available classes, on the job training is frowned upon) -Raises are nonexistent -Benefits are below average and seem to be getting worse -Project leads are incompetent, unprofessional, have no training, are not able to perform under pressure and very poor decision makers. -Ranking system: inconsistent and ineffective. Doesn't seem to motivate employees to do better work. -Short term profit - it seems that upper management is only interested in profits in the next quarter. They are willing to sell their (1 year distant) future away for a small profit now