Ambitious?? Work somewhere else. - Anonymous employee Northrop Grumman Employee Review

1.0
10 Mar 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits but nothing earth shaking beyond that.

Cons

Move you around from office to office without notice and expect you to keep up your work load while interrupting it all the time. You like working in an 8 ft by 8 ft cell? Come work here! Cubicle city. Management doesn't care about their employees. The job market is bad and they know it. After all where are you going to go? Boeing?? If you are looking to further your career, look elsewhere. This is not the company for you. Promotions and positions of authority and power are handed out to friends and friends of friends to the detriment of the mission and the employee morale. Positions are posted as required but they are taken down as soon as a "qualified candidate" is found which usually takes hours. Individuals that are part of the "management click" are moved from one location to the next while a position can be created to bring them in under the protection of a friend that just happens to be the hiring manager. Seen that more than once. If you happen to be a woman or minority you have a much better chance of success at North Grumman. They are promoted over others to maintain the "diversity" to the misfortune of better qualified candidates. For better or worse, that's the way it is at Northrop Grumman. I have been here for more than a few years and have seen this behavior more than once.

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