Lockheed Martin reviews about "training"

90% of training for experienced professionals has to be done on your personnel time. the other 10% you have to be chosen by the SLT old boys club.

It is gov't contracting after all. This can make it not so stable of a career at times. We had several large, older programs shutdown the last couple of years and the company and HR management literally did nothing to help us find jobs inside the company. We joked about their "Grab Hold of Your Career" effort as being "Grab Hold of Your Rear"! After years of working hard in my cubicle I was expected to have some huge network of engineers and managers that I should work from to find MYSELF a job! Yep - that's what Grab Hold of My Career did for me! Submitting my resume to job requisitions year after year resulted in not a single phone call from anyone or an internal interview. When sequestration occurred last year - I was also expected to sit in my cubicle doing nothing (for 8 weeks!) because I had no contract number to charge to. Really Lockheed Martin? I had always been very proud to work for Lockheed Martin but it really resulted in a big zero for me. Lockheed Martin provides little to no training - so it is very hard to stay abreast of new technologies - especially for software geeks. (Go to Northrop!) Oh - also - watch it if you are a level 4 - you absolutely will not be able to move around much. Try to stay a cheap level 3 for a long as you can!

Management patterned after government programs, Slow moving, subject to government funding cycles.

LM can be a rather intense place to work, depending on the project and schedule. Reasonably high level of concern over quality of life issues for employees, opportunity for training and job mobility in the company. Managing work life balance can be an issues ... hours can be long.

Typical corporate workplace issues such as heavy overhead, many managers, heavy process. Can be high stress.

-Endless bueracracy -Middle management has some really low caliber people I've ever met (who are there only because of their tenure)- this can create tension when they are working with high potentials on their staff. Management also does not seem to have a lot of integrity and is willing to toss the blame down to save themselves. HR will always side with management. -Slow-paced work that is not exciting -The company likes to think of itself as a premier place to work, which can be annoying -The good ol' boys club dictates everything. This can be true at a lot of places, but not on the scale that it is at LM. -Industry in general is not poised for growth

Lower pay and benefits in services business. Training and development opportunities have become more limited with recent budget cuts and and cost savings initiatives.

Over the past decade or so, benefits have been eroding . For instance, the out of pocket cost for medical has risen dramatically. Since the company works so closely with the federal government, they have a tendency to become bureaucratic unnecessarily. The company's loyalty to its employees will be sacrificed for the betterment of the company. The pay is on the low end of average end of the pay scale, Not bad enough to make you seriously want to leave, but not good enough to make you not consider leaving. Management focuses too much on yearly compliance training as a performance metric. I have seen employees get dinged on their performance evaluation because they were not timely in completing their training.