Fundamentally broken management - Senior Principal Systems Administrator Northrop Grumman Employee Review

2.0
Jan 24, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Work supports the defense of the nation - Flexible work schedules - Great peers

Cons

The management is fundamentally broken. No direction, or cohesive strategy to address security requirements. Nepotism and cronyism is rampant. Ancient internal processes, cheaply and inefficiently run, drains time and effectiveness from employees. Do more with less, you will be told, when your department experiences high turn over, and the extra work falls on understaffed and burnt out departments. They seem to be actively alienating senior staff so when they quit can be replaced with inexperienced low paid staff who will stay long enough to get experience, get burned out, and then abandon ship.

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