Q&A With Lockheed Martin Employees

F35, MRO is slowing down needs more work

Well it seems the F-35 contract seems to be doing quite well and growing Emma Rose need more help Outreach to find more programs products to build

It was LMIT for year that was growing the most.

Diversity is embraced at an institutional level. Diversity is written into Lockheed policy. That said, it's still mostly male engineers who don't want to go home.

Diversity is widespread you have a smelting pot of people from all over this country in there where the goal of one thing producing the goal of one thing producing aircraft

It happened that my team were all men except one. They were white and black. Blacks were never been disadvantaged. There were many women at high managements.

Competent but distant. Lockheed engineers are typically high quality but you shouldn't expect to be mentored. The atmosphere is highly competitive.

i love the lockheed enginerds

It is a true team. They have been practicing agile development for a while. The recurring HR training brings all the eng at the same behavior level. The free provided training, coaching and team work makes the project move as expected.

A bunch of charities

Can reach any community

Depends on if the job is available now or if they are looking for future hires if they win a contract.

Within a week

There is a lot of opportunities to grow.

There many LDP (Leadership Development Programs) opportunities as well as more informal opportunities. You can post for any job inside the company and managers are usually great about letting you try new things.

Lockheed is a good opportunity for junior and mid-level engineers. Lockheed has never been a great place for Senior Engineers.

Very competitive.

They vary on experience, except at merrietta

We need to communicate more with all the employees

Ok but the can only do what they are told to do upper management needs replaced

The easiest way to get promoted is to bid on openings on other projects. Current project members will wait about twice as long to be promoted as people who are willing to move around. Also, unless you're lucky your program will only last from 3 to 7 years so you may end up interviewing internally more frequently than you thought. If you fail to find a position (nearly on your own) than you'll be laidoff. That process now takes 2 weeks.

This was the company that you could achieve all I wanted with them.

There are two different types of leaders at Lockheed Martin. Your direct leader will help you but won't be able to deviate from their playbook. Most engineers will never interact with leaders above your current program manager, e.g. Directors and above. They are the 1% you'll never see.

Lockheed was trying to reduce the layers as much they could. However, I had two managers and a leader. I guess it could be less complicated.

Inclusion is encouraged, and done by top managers.

The culture varies drastically depending on the project to which you are assigned. The "Engineering Dept" is little more than a body shop assigning people to projects. As such, the projects develop most of the company culture.

My team consists of 4 women at the managerial level and 4 men. My direct reports are split as well 3 women and 3 men.

Cheaper insurance and promote people for what they have done.

Don't expect it to be so exciting in another year.

Try to be nicer to your coworkers and don't pet them.

Not thinking about work and getting far from the work site.

I have a job and get paid. Other than that nothing.

That I would end up at a dead end job never being able to be promoted and I hate my job and just don't care anymore.

Rarely!!

2 days.

Competitive

Production, Engineering, Financial.

Within a week

Excellent if perform well and you’re willing to move.