Lockheed Martin Senior Software Engineer reviews

Work/Life balance depends on the program you are working for. "Innovation" is scarce as most programs are built around a sea of GOTS/COTS - expect to be continuously fighting garbage that wasn't meant to work together as Software/Systems. Benefits (Health, etc) are diminishing / cost more every year as LM manages their own health exchange. Generally will not pay overtime unless your program is on fire (normally subject to 45hours+ before OT will be paid - not including the 'free 5 hours' to get to 45). This gets more interesting with 9/80 schedules + expected "All in" attitude. Current CEO (defaulted) seems to have something to prove in not a good way (opinion).

Lockheed's salary isn't competitive once you've become more experienced. Management values leadership contributions more than technical contributions. I found myself in a situation where in order to grow within Lockheed I needed to do less technical work and more managerial work. The technical path at Lockheed is very narrow because at the end of the day, they rather have a lower level engineer perform a task than a high level engineer. It makes sense from a business and cost management perspective, but it's not good if you want to stay technical.