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#64 of 68 in Mechanical Mechatronic Engineering
I have found that managers are often lacking time and don't invest in upskilling/involving new or inexperienced team members as much as they should. For example, the first year of my employment was spent in a different office space to the rest of my team which made managers feel not accessible. Whether they make good mentors is dependent on individual personalities but generally I find that you need to seek mentorship and internal communications actively. There are formal feedback and recognition programs within Lockheed Martin which are used for check-ins, and these are used effectively.
My original manager was fairly overworked, and as such I didn't have too much access to his time, but was still super nice and great to work with. For he past year I've had a new manager who has much more time to reply and engage with his team, and is great.