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Lockheed Martin

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Wanna make millions? Work at Google. Wanna help put men on Mars work at Lockheed Martin. - Systems Safety Engineer Lockheed Martin Employee Review

4.0
3 Nov 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The best reason to work at Lockheed Martin is because it's the best place to work for your first and last job. Lockheed Martin believes in having a well trained workforce and you will get a lot of great training and be exposed to a lot of different aspects within your career field. There are a lot of very experienced engineers who will impart their knowledge on you so they can have a lighter work load and feel confident that the company will have good employees to keep their stock value up once they retire. If you plan to stick with LMCO make sure you negotiate as much salary as you can. Many people take the job at lockheed and then quit to go work at a smaller company for more pay. It's hard to turn away work that pays sometimes 20% more! At Lockheed you can get a lot of exposure to some really cool programs that you'd never get working somewhere else (well maybe Boeing...)

Cons

The performance review process isn't the best. Only a small 4% of the workforce will receive an exceptional or high rating and the rest fall in "Successful" or "basic" which means even if you are a stellar engineer unless you do something great to really set yourself apart from the rest of the workforce your likely hood of getting a high score is slim to none. Get the best salary you can coming in the door because promotions and raises are small and few and far between. Lockheed isn't the place to come if you wanna climb to the top quickly.

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Pros

Cool projects and smart people

Cons

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5.0
2 Aug 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

High level of integrity throughout the company, open communications, and sincere interest in doing the right thing.

Cons

Unfortunately, I need to come up with twenty words of cons. When in reality after 41+ years in IT, I have no cons for Lockheed Martin. They are not perfect, but highly acceptable.

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