Pros
1. Compared to other aerospace companies, LM paid higher initially, but then they rip you off big time later 2. If you know how to do something good, you'll be doing it a lot more, and you ain't moving out of that position anytime soon either 3. If you don't know how to do something, just act busy and you'll be promoted to manager very quickly 4. Your performance evaluation has nothing to do with your performance. They already know how much they're going to give you, so putting the min. or go extra and above makes no different 5. Learn how to tell good jokes and eat lunch with the boss because that's the only way to move up at LM... it has nothing to do with how much you know. 6. Incompetent people move up really fast in management track
Cons
1. Incompetence people are in manager positions 2. Positions are broken up into smaller chunks, so they can bill the government more (unethical). This is why defense contracts are always over budget and late. 3. Since you don't get to do what an engineer is supposed to be doing, you are not utilizing your jobs skill at all; eventually you become obsolete, and you can't go work anywhere else because you already lost all of your engineering skills. 4. Don't ever show them that you can do the work for half/quarter of the time because that means they have to show the government that they are efficient, which means less money next contract around... You'll work yourself out of your own job. Innovation and efficiency are prohibited at LM because that's not their business model. Their business model is to milk the GOVT' as much as they can, so if you try to save money for the company you're hurting their bottom line (young engineers make this mistake a lot)