Relevant to those who can obtain clearance and work for Lockheed Martin, UTC Raytheon etc. The jobs seem to be plentiful and low stress with 6-8 hrs of workdays. Longer product development cycles. The pay is good, though not good as FAANG. For example, senior project manager base pay is around 140k in Southern California. Bonus is 15 % Any opinions?
TC is a joke in defense, Boeing offered me 79k lmao
Not bad for the 5 hours a week you’ll work there
Wlb is great. Yep, have to work on "kenetics", but our country's freedom kinda requires it. Pay is not faang level, but not much else is. We have lots of very diverse positions and people, no joke.
Don’t work in defense if you are SWE it’s just not worth it. Tech is old and slow career growth. ~2 years - 88K - LA promo to eng2 soon but even that would put me at ~97K which is still low
I’m not in South Cali but I’ll give my two cents. I joined LM as a SWE college hire and the pay is nice. More than I think I’d get in my area for a college hire and WLB is great*. Personally wouldn’t recommend it though unless you wanted to settle down somewhere. Someone else already commented that the tech stack is old and that’s 100% true from what I’ve seen. You might get a few teams with newer tech but I wouldn’t count on it. Teams also won’t upgrade due to red tape and needing to spend money overhauling their code. It is pretty chill. Promotions seem to be more time based rather than skill based unless you’re a stellar engineer (and assuming you’re somewhat competent). WLB was good but it seems LM is trying to transition to a flex 4/10 schedule and I’m personally not a fan of it. As someone who is young and starting their career in SW, I’m trying to leave to further my skill set, but as mech/systems you might be ok regardless Edit: just realized I wrote this from a purely SW perspective, but I hope it gives some insight on the type of environment it is :)
Thank you this helps a lot
A lot of people are quick to talk smack about the tech stacks in defense. Things will change. They have to change. Docker is already commonplace on research projects. Gitlab is the go-to. True, the tech stack can't change on a program that started years ago and spans a few more years so, yes, there might be a delay but newer work will be forced to keep up with the times. Stop being so ignorant
India
7h
800
I hope none of you ever gets a GC
India
Yesterday
223
Modi is at least honest on Media that it is not neutral but Godi media
2024 Presidential Election
3d
44347
There’s going to be an emergency shut down
Tech Industry
Yesterday
1140
No man is 100% straight
Personal Finance
Yesterday
1257
Hit new milestone: 1.4M at 29F
That’s mid-tier SWE pay, imo you can get the WLB and the same or better comp and not have to work on bombs.
Thank you but I am Mechanical/Systems Engineer so I need to think accordingly.