{"id":7216,"date":"2019-03-14T01:05:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T01:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=7216"},"modified":"2019-04-11T00:47:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T00:47:04","slug":"the-aerospace-industry-comparing-the-cultures-of-boeing-lockheed-martin-general-dynamics-northrop-grumann-and-raytheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/the-aerospace-industry-comparing-the-cultures-of-boeing-lockheed-martin-general-dynamics-northrop-grumann-and-raytheon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aerospace Industry: Comparing the Cultures of Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever wonder what might be like to work for one of the big aerospace companies? Comparably looked at culture data for five of the biggest aerospace firms\u00a0\u2013 Boeing<\/b>, General Dynamics<\/b>, Lockheed Martin<\/b>, Northrop Grumman<\/b> and Raytheon<\/b> \u2013\u00a0for the following comparison. We looked at Comparably\u2019s employee-submitted data for overall culture and six other categories to determine which of the outfits is run the most like a modern company, with real concern for culture and diversity.<\/p>\n

OVERALL CULTURE<\/p>\n

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In a frankly unimpressive spread of scores, Raytheon wins for Culture, beating Lockheed Martin by just one percentage point.<\/p>\n

Boeing: \u201cEmpower employees to think for themselves and make decisions. Stop resisting technology from the 21st century. Eliminate bureaucracy.<\/b>\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

General Dynamics: \u201c<\/b>I like the actual work that I do, just not the political drama.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Lockheed Martin: \u201c<\/b>At the end of a successful project, you’ll feel like you contributed to the security of the nation.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Northrop Grumman: \u201c<\/b>Due to the nature of the work, it is a stovepiped environment due to security concerns. But steps are being taken to improve the stovepipes and efforts need to continue that way.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Raytheon: \u201c<\/b>Raytheon coed softball league, one game a week. Good opportunity to meet people outside of your normal working group and we have a cookout afterwards. Same deal for volleyball.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

CEO<\/p>\n

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Raytheon takes another category, thank to the winning score for their CEO Thomas Kennedy. Northrop’s Wes Bush and Lockheed’s Marilyn Hewson were nipping at Kennedy’s heels, with scores just two and one percentage points less, respectively.<\/p>\n

Boeing: \u201cGood guy, always can improve communication.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

General Dynamics: \u201cPlaces money and profit ahead of employees.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Lockheed Martin: \u201c<\/b>She is an outstanding person and cares greatly for the future of the business.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Northrop Grumman: \u201c<\/b>Wes Bush has lead a lot of growth at the company and is positioning the company to build defense products in an ever-evolving environment.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Raytheon: \u201cStraight-forward and honest.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

COMPENSATION<\/p>\n

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Raytheon continues its march to (relative) glory by winning for Compensation, beating runner-up Boeing by just one percentage point.<\/p>\n

Boeing: \u201cThe annual bonus is great.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

General Dynamics: \u201cI am undervalued and underappreciated.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Lockheed Martin: \u201cI’m paid fairly, in line with what the market will bear for my role\/level.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Northrop Grumman: \u201cI feel undervalued because they rely on some matrix instead of actual employee reviews and contributions.<\/b>\u201d<\/p>\n

Raytheon: \u201cSalary is very competitive for my skill set in the industry.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

PERKS & BENEFITS<\/p>\n

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Boeing gets a win in the fourth category for Perks & Benefits, rating a five-point win over runners-up Lockheed and Northrup.<\/p>\n

Boeing: \u201c<\/b>Good medical, dental, yearly evaluations and raises.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

General Dynamics: \u201cThey offer pet health insurance that I used. However, I don\u2019t see them outshine any of the other large DoD contracting companies.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Lockheed Martin: \u201c<\/b>They buy professional trainers and provide countless of courses online or on premises.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Northrop Grumman: \u201c<\/b>Comprehensive medical, 401K match, employee resource groups, tuition reimbursement.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Raytheon: \u201c<\/b>Nothing earth-shattering. Free access to a lot of Boston area museums is probably unique but aside from that it\u2019s pretty standard.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

GENDER<\/p>\n

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Lockheed takes one this round, for the Gender category, which measures how women feel about the company and the way females are generally treated compared to other workers.<\/p>\n

DIVERSITY<\/p>\n

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Northrup takes the brass ring for the Diversity category, but none of the five firms got higher than a C+. The runner-up here is Raytheon, but they’re four percentage points behind Northrup.<\/p>\n

Boeing: \u201cThey are very big on diversity.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

General Dynamics: \u201cDiscrimination at its highest.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Lockheed Martin: \u201c<\/b>Diversity is written into Lockheed policy. That said, it’s still mostly male engineers who don’t want to go home.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Northrop Grumman: \u201c<\/b>In my software group of 6 people there is one woman. In the larger team of 60 I would estimate 1\/5 are women. UI engineering team at one point was all female. Test team has only a few.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Raytheon: \u201c<\/b>Definitely leans white and male but pretty diverse in some departments.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

OUTLOOK<\/p>\n

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Raytheon and Lockheed share the final award, for the Outlook category. That tallies a second win for Lockheed, but this has been Raytheon’s contest from the beginning in terms of culture. Counting this tie, Raytheon wins the whole comparison. They took home top prizes in four categories. Lockheed took two trophies, also counting this final tie for Outlook. Northrup and Boeing each took one prize, and all we can say for General Dynamics – rated lowest in every category \u2013 is “better luck next time.” Overall, it seems that these defense companies have most fervently defended older business practices most loyally of all. None save Raytheon seem to engage employees with a vibrant culture, and all the companies could use a new focus on improving gender and diversity imbalances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever wonder what might be like to work for one of the big aerospace companies? Comparably looked at culture data for five of the biggest aerospace firms\u00a0\u2013 Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon \u2013\u00a0for the following comparison. We looked at Comparably\u2019s employee-submitted data for overall culture and six other categories to determine … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,4,3,5],"tags":[403,11,404],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7216"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7243,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216\/revisions\/7243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}