Lockheed Martin reviews

You're treated like a cog in a machine. You stay in whatever job your management decides to place you in until the contract funding runs dry, then you get placed in something else you'll like even less. Management says they care about your career development, but then they don't approve any training (provided any training exists, which at Lockheed Martin, that's a big question). The motto for career development is "Manage your own career," but they don't give you any power or authority to look for other positions in the company and they don't pay much toward college tuition. Pay and benefits are substandard compared to the rest of the industry. I went to Northrop Grumman and got a 15% pay raise for jumping over, and I got the same insurance benefits for half the cost. The 401k benefits were almost identical, too. The pension plan at Lockheed Martin went away in lieu of a capital accumulation plan (CAP) soon after I joined which changed the vesting from 5 years (pension) to 3 years (CAP). Basically, new employees got vested before I did, and I joined the company a year before they did. The vacation benefit is a hoax because you never have enough money to take a vacation anywhere; they seriously don't expect you to take vacation, either, as they have a cap of something like 500 hours of accumulated vacation.

The company is very slow to get things changed. It is run like the military so rank is very important. It is very hard for young people to get respect and promotions. There is a huge number of old employees who do nothing but come to work and collect a check every week. The review process is terrible where they use a bell curve to fit everyone into a certain range based on their peers. They spend way to much time on diversity and not enough on people who can actually do the job. it is very hard to stand out there.