Northrop Grumman Reviews

Pros

Brand presence and legacy, History of innovation

Cons

Outdated strategy, Poor management of business units, lack of Asia-Pacific business knowledge

Pros

This is a great place to build your career – there is fast professional growth at the company, but it’s more forced upon you rather than encouraged. There are some really admirable and amazing people who work here, which makes supporting the company’s mission more exciting. The 9/80 work schedule is also a great perk.

Cons

If you like playing corporate politics and having zero work-life balance, then Northrop Grumman is for you! Expect constant changes in organizational structure with no guidance from leadership (who preach collaboration across the org, yet they never involve necessary POCs in their own strategic planning), and a revolving door of new employees who quickly realize the poor work environment they signed up for. Executive leadership is resistant to critical feedback that’s essential in an enterprise’s performance review, and is extremely slow in making necessary changes. They encourage people to move laterally within the company as they say it’s a way to learn more about the business, but it’s only to hide the fact that they rarely promote their hard-working employees. There’s a reason why the Comms org continues to lose dedicated and talented employees – and it will continue to do so until there’s accountability being held at the executive-level.

Pros

Given its name at the great springboard to something that is genuinely technically better.

Cons

Instances where there is a company push towards something - smaller remote offices, flat out refuse to go along with this push, which is normally for modernization. This results in technical solutions being presented that were developed in the same manner they would have been 30 years prior. When leads are chosen for projects management picks the people they are most comfortable with, as opposed to those that are most capable; while technically astute, some of these folks have absolutely no people skills and many times commit HR faux pas's. Managers are not held accountable for the rates at which people underneath them leave the company. There is little to no room for advancement which is why, if one were to ask people how long they've been at their current position, many would reply 10 years, I was flat out told no need to ask "nothing is available." Many smaller teams are in the technological stone ages, way behind the times. When dealing with government entities in the same boat end up having the blind leading the blind, both being 20 years behind the technological curve and no one is the wiser. I feel bad for younger employees starting a career here as this is absolutely is not the norm, thinking that this is the industry wide method for doing things is hurting their career down the road.

Pros

* Flexible schedule within the pay period and open to hybrid * Well known company that is good for your resume * Promotes learning new skills

Cons

* Terrible for growth within company * WORST bonus structure in the industry, unless you are an executive * Management more focused on kingdom-building than developing employees * Being an "Engineer" makes you better than everyone else * Policies make it difficult to recognize or promote for new skills learned or past experience * Hiring from outside is easier than promoting, ruining morale and driving attrition through the roof * So much focus is on doing "new" things, that solid, best practices are thrown out the window and everyone is left creating hundreds of manual processes (which of course costs the entire country of taxpayers more money in wasted time, effort, and years of failures) * So much focus is on DEI and "bring your whole self to work," that only one side is represented, in fact if you do have some minority bonus, than some of the above problems don't apply to you

Pros

Opportunities are there for you to jump from team to team. You can expand your knowledge and skills more than other places I'm sure. Also nice to know that the job security is there. If you have a remote role, work/life balance is nice. If the opportunity presents itself to get a clearance, go for it. Getting someone to sponsor something like that is far and few.

Cons

Work culture. It's virtually non-existent. Not every team functions this way, but most of the teams I've worked with don't really invest the time and effort to teach you or welcome you to the team as much as you'd expect. You really have to be great at learning on the fly. Often, you'd think that the effort you invest in projects will result in a higher merit increase at the end of the year, but sadly there are only very very few people that are labeled as "excellent or high performers". This leaves you settling for 3% raises year over year. Unless you jump from team to team and hope to persuade the next team that you deserve more. Only managed to see myself get bumped about 20k in 5 years, which sounds good, but compared to the market, I should have been around double that by now. Northrop is a great place to start your career, or at the tail end of it. No more than 5 years consecutively in either case.

Pros

Great benefits, Great pay, Ability to promote, Consistent raises and recognitions, Support your education, Many great projects and teams to work on w/ the flexibility to move around

Cons

HR department is less than competent, Unfortunately a lot of promotions depend on who you know and not how hard you worked for it, Politics within the company seem to trump everything else

Pros

I've been here for around 9 months and so far things have been easy going. I was terrified that it would be extremely stressful like how I felt when I worked for a small tech company, but to delight it hasn't been that way. I can only recall 3 events where I felt stressed. 2 of them were preparing for demos. The culture here is friendly, work is interesting. You get to work from home. Nobody micromanages you. You get a free gym membership if you work at building 8 / 8a. Flexible scheduling between 9/80 and 4/10. If you don't like your current team or your role you are free to move around without having to do interviews with other teams.

Cons

Some people don't like it when it's too slow paced but I do. At some of the buildings, they could use some furniture upgrades. Hard to grasp the leadership structure since it's such a huge company.

Pros

-Steady job -Great people -Good 401K match -Great work life balance

Cons

-Boring work -Lacks advancement opportunities or decent pay increases -Management pays for projects to get done then cuts funding and expects you to maintain a project without funding. -Lack of financial incentive to work hard. You are not properly rewarded to work hard. -Works hard to try and improve attrition within the company in all ways except for proper wages for their workforce, which is what people want. -Politics

Pros

Great pay with little or no experience. Culture and atmosphere is great for the most part.

Cons

-Slow rate of PTO accrual -Management has individuals or are not qualified to manage day to day operations. -Benefits could be better

Pros

Good benefits and insurance for family

Cons

Big company no say in how things operate