Lockheed Martin Communication Systems Engineer reviews

When cuts in personnel come they usually are followed by the hiring of additional managers. "Hey we can't afford you anymore, but we are going to bring someone in at double your salary to sit at there desk and send out vague emails".

September is nervous time. Managers hire contractors (Indian mostly) as inexpensive, good help, then when September comes around they let them go. Always a very sad time of the year as you get to know these people. They don't so much oblige the customer as they bow to them. Even when our client makes decisions that are detremental, we dare say nothing because of fear of losing the contract even though we've had it for 20 years. We recenlty lost the Analysis, Validation and User Experience portions of the contract. I have to wonder if part of the reason is because we never say 'no' when as a 'consulting' company we need to in order to protect the customer from themselves sometimes. They are unwilling to consider moving into the commercial space even though the government contracts aren't what they used to be and it would be beneficial to the company. I think this may come back to bite them later.