Lockheed Martin reviews about "upper management"

Constant upper management churn, no visibility at lower levels as to what the big picture is and how the employee is contributing to this. Management blocks job transfers between departments.

Depending on the program you work, you could either end up working extremely long hours or on the flip side work on a program that upper management doesn't care about.

- Upper management was ineffective and directing subordinates to collaborate and there was a re-org or change in leader every several months. - Big company with many processes that slowed down efficiency - Benefits kept going downhill, i.e. moved over to high deductible health insurance plan.

Job orientation and training weak.

For software, do not expect to use the latest technology to help the customer. You can expect to be literally at least15 years behind the current technology trends. Example right now, containers and vms are not widely used. Do not expect agile development in most cases, mosts contracts are still waterfall. No matter what they say, it's still waterfall execution from contract and upper management. Due to security concerns, most libraries and software languages are restricted to older versions or just not used at all.

The hierarchy can be confusing, I have roughly 3 people that I directly report to.

It's always seemed like a rat race that's induced by the company culture. There's very few opportunities to "move up" when you're mid-career. Benefits are terrible, and Salary was never positive. I earned less each year because of the minimal salary increases, and increase in benefits costs. When programs get lean, management has typically asked employees to contribute at least 10 hrs of overtime uncompensated prior to consideration for overtime. When annual compensation raises were around the corner, having contributed 10 hrs of uncompensated overtime was the status quo, and even then you may see a 1.8% increase on an under market salary. Upper management seemed to be heavily pepperd with cronyism... I've never seen such flagrant application of it. There was a wall of management at every step of the way. I was always in fear of my position being eliminated. Management would say "last one in, first one out" regardless of experience that I brought to the team.

Still slow to change of course. You do things one way for 50 years and it becomes embedded in the mind and culture of a company.

Very obviously not a software centered company, stuck with old tools and red tape. Upper management just cares about their bottom line and quantity over quality which leads to more rework down the line that may or may not be in the budget.