Take the good with the bad - Anonymous employee Lockheed Martin Employee Review

There seems to be a disconnect between management and the employees. While the engineers work diligently to develop, integrate and deliver amazing capabilities to the customer; managers seem to travel from meeting to meeting with the rare interaction with the employees. The work is accomplished and overseen by the engineers while managers crunch the numbers and go to meetings. With this disconnect it seems like a gamble that the managers would ever make really well-informed and good decisions for a project. If they don't know what the employees do day-to-day how are they to make decisions that impact the projects? There is a constant murmur that one hand does not know what the other is doing. There is also the false push for work-life balance. There is no such thing. Management has signed the programs up for such aggressive schedules that they preach work life balance then ask you to work the weekends and holidays. Finally, there is a lot of good-ol-boy practices that happen. There are high-level engineers that do nearly nothing and get awards and recognition because they run in the right circles. It really detracts from motivation. If it were not for the exciting work and good pay; I would not be at this company.