Lockheed Martin reviews

Corporate medical benefits have gone downhill as with many sectors. New LM health plan is less than ideal with employees picking up a lot more of the costs. IRAD funds are hard to come by and favor improving near term business results vs. long term advanced research goals. IT support is understaffed and struggles to keep up with day to day requests. IT services frequently block useful content and spyware/security/scanning apps and practices render developer machines sluggish.

Personal development and growth can be stunted by either staying in a position too long and/or not being diverse enough. Managers within Lockheed Martin are to have a diverse understanding on a range of disciplines, but leaving a role for another discipline could result in not be able to return to your discipline of choice. (For example: leaving Systems Engineering for Configuration Management or Information Technology) And on the other end, managers seem to have a stove pipe mentality, when it comes to their personnel, as they want people to be groomed in one particular discipline. But to become a manager, you need to have more knowledge and experience than what the current discipline can offer. The review rating system needs to be revamped. Managers are forced to pass out one low or below average rating, forced to pass out very few (one or two) higher ratings, and groups everyone else in the "average" pool.