Q&A With Lockheed Martin Employees

You'll work in a locked office surrounded by guards so you won't have to worry about your ex showing up at the office. You'll never have to tell anyone what you do for a living which is a bigger perk than you may realize. Also, lots of people still think that Lockheed engineers are still the smartest people on earth.

To many to name

Not enough

Lockheed survey's companies in the geographical area and base salaries upon that information. If you feel you stand out from other engineers and perform with excellence you shouldn't expect your pay to entirely reflect this. It is as likely that your salary will reflect what Raytheon and other DoD/Defence firms are paid as much if not more than your individual contribution.

Below market average

Excellent and competitive

Your manager will try to get the team together about once per year for an outing but no one will want to go.

Needs work

They used to be fun but now all we hear is budget cuts so we get scraps

You accumulate 10 hours monthly up to 400

3 week for new hires until 15 years of service. after that one day / year of service until you reach 20 years of service and 4 weeks. That's pretty much the max -- 4 weeks

The feeling of accomplishment at the end of each day knowing that I have furthered my country my military into the future

Using all the special equipment like tools and software

Variety of products, customers, and job opportunities.

Medical, Dental, Vision, Mental health/Substance Abuse and 401k matching (first 8%). Change to Cigna this year has increased fees and out of pocket costs >50% over prior (Aetna)

Usual plus training.

Allowed but not encouraged.

It completely depends on the nature of work that you are doing. Some groups simply can't offer telecommuting - but... I wouldn't be here if they didn't offer it, so it works for me.

It depends on what type of work you are doing.

Good strategy to prepare the future

Great paid interns and if you perform well a job when you graduate

Awesome. Lockheed is a great place for the first 3 years and interns are especially highly compensated. As a fulltime employee it will leave you scratching your head.

HR Representative, within a week.

Manager and coworker. One day.

When I was interviewed I was at the facility for almost 9 hours. I was interviewed by multiple programs. Within a day or two, I was offered 3 different positions. That said after I accepted a position it still took about 6 weeks for me to start and due to my lack of more than a Secret clearance, I didn't actually ever work the job I accepted (until about 6 years later).

Work 46 hours average.

40 hours a week or more if you like

9/80 work week

Team really work together and communication is good. High level of respect.

Teammates are Great

Slow

Cubicles with 6 foot walls generally. You won't feel like someone is looking over your shoulder but you won't feel comfortable talking with your spouse on the phone.

Upbeat

Hectic

The challenge at Lockheed will be for you to ignore the passion of your boss. They'll ask for the world but you'll need to look after your own health and well-being because when the project is behind that won't be a concern.

1-10 = 8

It's okay

Standard Cubicles with 6 foot high walls. Most offices are secured DoD areas so you can leave your IPod and phone at home. Perfumes and other scented air fresheners are forbidden by policy, tuna and other foods are not.

Cubicles

It's okay

The engineering vibe is in one word, competitive. Poor performers are more likely to be driven out or into management than they are to be mentored and trained. Expect to learn any cutting-edge skills on your own time if you expect to be relevant to the rest of the Software Engineering marketplace in 10 years.

boring enginerds

Varies by program. 45-60

There's room for improvement with the work pace for instance you can't sit there and say you're a thousand hours behind schedule and yet it takes you almost an hour to get your people up and working in the

I like it it's okay

medium. They allow time for planning, documentation, review, create dev, .... before going to production. There are a lot of times that you have to wait for other team to review your plan , design, .. but, it makes sense and it is sure way to do any projects.

Most promotions require you to interview for internal positions on other programs. Levels 0-1-2 can be promoted within a program but after that, you'll need to look for another program.

Record individual performance over the year and review it yearly.

Lockheed Martin uses a yearly evaluation.

Cordial I would say

Being nervous and hectic

Technical.

They leave because they are not appreciated and all they get is told they don’t do enough while the company wants to strip them of all their benefits

Better compensation and benefits

Daily work more Communications less attitude

It's a professional environment. They act professionally.

Vacation and Insurance is great, but health care is higher than average, but that is where all companies are going nowadays.

Just less than average to about average. You can expect a "High Deductible" insurance plan.

They get worse every year

Same

My interview took almost 9 hours but the questions were right on par with other companies. They did feed the twenty new interviewees a nice breakfast but that was in 1999. I wouldn't expect that today.

Aircraft stucture industry wide are similar

Very positive

Good benefits

There is room for improvement

For the most part the coworkers are easy to get along with and our team players

It's like a family some time is good, some time just a lot of drama

Variety of people work for Lockheed.

Where did you work last and what did you do

Why did you choose Lockheed Martin

Detail.