Lockheed Martin reviews

Benefits are completely garbage, especially outside their main facilities. They continue to cut healthcare options to the point now where they are super expensive and dont cover anything until you pay thousands out of pocket. For the RMS section specifically they are really bad. Every other section gets an extra amount contributed to their 401K, but RMS is excluded. RMS also gets less vacation time during the first two years than the rest of the company, which is already a small amount compared to other employers. They are also skirting federal regulations regarding sick time by not naming any PTO sick time, but you only get 5 days of sick leave for the entire year. To top all this off, their pay generally sucks compared to most places in the area, AND they just snuck a requirement in that all workers must work 5 extra hours a week, that they dont get paid for! All of this and they wonder why they have so much turnover within a 1 year period

I joined this company with high hopes of making a big impact. Since I started I really applied myself and got good reviews and then the first "raise" came along, and the second, third, fourth. Raises that don't show a lot of appreciation for the employees. In the meantime, I saw friends leave to work at competing companies and get raises that you would not get at Lockheed after 5 years of excellent performance. It's a real motivation killer to not be valued by the company. Needless to say, after I finish my graduate degree, I'm out. I wanted to retire here but loyalty and hard work are not well compensated. The work is also extremely easy, with tons of people reviewing/meddling in your tasks which allows for no ownership and kills creativity as everything is just cranking the wheel. Why put effort into something when 6 other people after you will come in and change most of the work anyways. Nitpicking whether a word should be capitalized, and similar nuances that the customer surely doesn't care about but just wastes time.