Lockheed Martin reviews about "upper management"

Poor Upper Management Good old boy promotions

expensive health insurance, terrible upper management

Disconnects between upper management and engineering staff. Poor individual cash bonus rewards.

upper management is stuck in the past

-Upper management pats themselves on the back while pushing off promotions for their employees. -Bad leaders up the chain use the Good ol’ Boy system to keep people with million dollar salaries who just take naps at their desk and let their programs fail. -Sometimes given large assignments that managers knew for months last minute and expected to be done in two weeks or less. -Lots of people are leaving right now so every team is a skeleton crew with employees working two/three times what they should be. -Facilities are a wreck post pandemic (raccoons in the office, A/C not working for months, littered with wasp nests, etc).

Upper management will try to take advantage of you, add responsibilities for no further compensation, drag feet on promotions etc.

Workspace is unsatisfying in some places. Work can be slow between deadlines. Upper management isn't always on top of planning things out. Gaining access to new tools and software is a slow, painful process.

Upper management / Senior leaders. Senior leaders focus solely on their project (this is how they got to their position). There is no empathy if your manager placed you on 3+ projects. You're gonna get worked to the bone at LM ATL. If you're lucky enough to be on just standalone 1 project, you've won the lottery. Pretend to be busy. Promotions are mostly stagnant unless you're at the Cherry Hill office where the managers are. If not, you successes will get no visibility. If you do get promoted to senior engineer, you have to be OK with 3% raises every year for the next 15 years before you are considered for managerial! Quarter of the staff that work here have been there for 15+ years and they are only L4. The management is filled with "its not about the pay, it's about helping the warfighter". BTW, we don't get mandatory Veteran's Day + Labor Day off! If any of that entices you, make sure you're good at writing because you will be working hard and spending 60+ hours a week getting that next proposal win so your team looks good at the next lab's all hands!!

As with all government jobs there can be a level of bureaucracy involved. However it really depends on what team you are on. The HR can be pretty inflexible, so it is hard to get more than a modest pay raise every year unless you are in upper management. A lot of people will leave Lockheed Martin for a bit and then come back for the salary raise.