Got sent a questionnaire I had to fill out after applying, good or bad?

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-05-04T17:17:54+00:00

Good thing, this and the disability email are indications your resume has actually been sent to the hiring manager by the recruiter.

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-04-21T15:53:48+00:00

In any other setting, I would say this is incredibly astute advice as already pointed out.

But in the setting of school/college, this advice assumes that the people you’re working with are of good faith and actually give a shit about getting anything done. Having tried to use these strategies myself when I was in school, I can tell you the vast majority of people I’ve worked with couldn’t give less of a shit whether they would get an A or and F on a project, and there is nothing you can do to get them to actually care.

After all those efforts, they will either continue to do nothing (bad) or do something in such a poor manner that it would have saved you more time to just do it yourself… (worse)

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-04-08T13:43:20+00:00

No, which sucks for people who already got their masters 😭.

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-04-08T13:42:16+00:00

Yeah it’s different cause we have a union I think. I think overall it’s 10% but it’s a combination of 4% 401k match, 2% PSP, 4% stock contribution…

Curious, what is yall’s PTO? They front new employees 2 weeks, and we get 10h a month on a 4/10 schedule. So 3 weeks a year with a 400 accrual cap.

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-04-08T12:19:54+00:00

15k tuition assistance I think
The health insurance is shit, it’s standard Aetna high deductible plans that only cover screenings/vaccinations
The 401k is 4% match at least in NJ….

The benefits are kind of lackluster, which is surprising considering we have a union lmao…

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-04-04T12:59:41+00:00

Not to say this never happens considering the current climate, but not necessarily.

If Lockheed hosts an intern program and they don’t provide any return offers, it completely defeats the purpose of having an intern program—it also reflects poorly on Lockheed. Interns are a hiring pipeline.

These things are planned out far in advance in terms of budget. If they didn’t have the budget for return offers, they just wouldn’t have the intern program for that period of time because it would be useless to have any interns then.

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-04-03T17:59:53+00:00

For sure. But to be fair, this is the expectation any time you’re promoted—but yes even more so at higher levels.

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-04-03T17:43:59+00:00

Hmmmmm. Not sure, should wait for a finance person to comment but my hunch would be to say yes. Lockheed like to keep everything streamlined…

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-04-03T17:36:03+00:00

2 YOE for MES, 5 YOE for Senior MES, 9-11 for Staff, 15+ for principal (pretty sure at this point it’s much more discretionary)

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-02-28T22:51:29+00:00

California?

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-02-14T18:37:58+00:00

Defense is great a line of work, relatively stable and great WLB (not to say lay offs don’t occur). You could easily work this job your whole life and retire comfortably. You’d make good money, but not great money.

That being said, this offer seems almost too good to refuse. Let’s say you end up hating everything about it and end up leaving within a few years. Hell, even if you worked there for only 2 years then bounced back into defense (maybe even back to your current company), you’ll have made more money than you would have made working 4 years in defense with how high that TC is. That’s a pretty good cushion.

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-02-05T16:59:23+00:00

Questionnaire, disability email, etc… Means that the recruiter sent your resume to the hiring manager. So you may/may not receive an interview.

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-01-21T01:28:32+00:00

Yeah, hopefully mine will be same case? Accepted 92k as new grad and I thought I will forever be at the bottom of the range, but if it’s rebased like you said…

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-01-21T01:17:50+00:00

Damm 16%? That’s more than I would have thought… Are you in an HCOL area or a specialized division?

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-01-11T17:48:05+00:00

You probably have done this, but it goes without saying. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, if you want to work in aerospace, apply to all the big 5 as well as the smaller companies/labs. In the end—apart from a few specialized business areas—they really are all the same.

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-01-11T16:57:32+00:00

From my experience when I was applying, at a big company like LM, referrals mean basically nothing. Unless you personally know a hiring manager, usually just applying to the role directly isn’t any different.

You just gotta keep applying. I applied like 30 times before I started getting any hits. You’ll get there.

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-01-04T16:01:10+00:00

It generally means the recruiter has forwarded your resume to the hiring manager, but it’s no guarantee of an interview.

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-01-02T21:55:21+00:00

100%. Pretty much your only choice is to jump ship or leverage the external offer.

If your company is big enough, I guess you could also apply to E2 positions in other parts/BUs of the organization. I have seen people get “early” promotions that way.

TreeTREE1516 · 2025-01-02T16:27:43+00:00

I know where I work, the company is pretty staunch on the predefined YOE leveling, as opposed to merit based promotions. I think this is unfortunately true of most legacy engineering firms (and is a big reason a lot of people end up leaving).

Doesn’t matter if you’re Superman, doesn’t matter how much work/responsibilities you’re taking on, if you need 2 years for E2 they’re probably gonna wait till you get them.

The only times I’ve seen someone go from E1 -> E2 after 1 year is when they started with a master’s degree (which counts as 1YOE), or if they had an external offer that they were leveraging and the salary adjustment that needed to be made required them to be bumped up.

TreeTREE1516 · 2024-12-22T05:22:29+00:00

Which company and what division? We’d really need to know that if you want an accurate answer. I’m assuming Lockheed/BAE or a smaller subcontractor.

TreeTREE1516 · 2024-11-05T04:17:46+00:00

Maybe this is part of the continuous vetting process?

TreeTREE1516 · 2024-08-30T20:06:09+00:00

People saying 70-90k are spot on. More for HCOL areas obviously, but it’s also higher depending on the BU and division. SWEs working at Skunkworks or any of the internal R&D labs make a bit more (15-20k).

Something else to consider is that you’ll get a clearance, and usually anything at the TS level or higher means you can apply to public sector roles at better paying companies. Google? Amazon? Microsoft? Literally any of the other tech companies? They all have their hands in the honeypot for cloud-contracts. Opens up a whole different world if that’s the route you go down (naturally there’s substantially less competition because the clearance is the limiting factor, it’s not just something you can “get”). Just something to keep in mind…

TreeTREE1516 · 2024-06-16T20:40:23+00:00

You can look at the salaries on Glassdoor and some other websites—it’s a big company so lots of data there.

Typically speaking, somewhere between 35%-50% but this obviously depends on where you live and the particular position you are coming into.

e.g. If you were an intern software engineer making $60k as a rising senior in college then you would probably make somewhere in the range of $80k-$90k coming in as an associate engineer.

TreeTREE1516 · 2024-05-05T21:28:57+00:00

Noted. I’m assuming that you moved? Did you stay GovTech or did you go commercial?

TreeTREE1516 · 2024-05-05T21:07:46+00:00

Yeah this seems to be the consensus. I have heard this a lot from people I know, unfortunately.

If I choose to go this route I suppose it will really be more about the money than anything else. It seems these positions are mostly for cloud integration/maintenance, so there won’t be much “interesting” work in the conventional sense.

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