Lockheed Martin Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was genuinely excited because Lockheed was one of the companies I’d wanted for a long time, and I was invited to interview for a SEAD program.

It was a virtual interview with multiple interviewers, and while the process itself stretched over many months, the hard part wasn’t the timeline—it was the experience during the interview.

I didn’t get a good vibe from some of the interviewers. One person seemed disengaged in a way that made me uncomfortable as I answered, which threw me off because I couldn’t tell if it was me or just their mood. The questions themselves weren’t described as technical “gotchas” in my notes, but the tone of the interaction made the whole thing feel draining.

Eventually I wasn’t selected, and I remember

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