Northrop Grumman reviews

Every single minute of your 9-hour day is documented. If you take a 5 minute bathroom break, you can't charge that time so you need to work 9 hours and 5 minutes, for example. Furthermore, the facility at Rolling Meadows is atrocious. No windows, terrible culture, even worse "amenities." Also, the benefits package is not good. Anybody who says it is does not have knowledge in this arena. Rx coverage is lacking severely, contributions are high, and the "benefits center" is a useless resource. You need to communicate all requests through the benefits center, but this is impossible when their employees do not know what they're talking about. I have never been more frustrated with a benefits package.

- Horrible middle management. They are given full decision making autonomy while rarely being held accountable. If you're hired on to a program or project team with this type of questionable leadership, you are doomed. - Zero work/life balance. At the direction of senior managent to cut cost, deliver on spec, and on schedule, middle management grossly under hires the required number of personnel for teams while utilizing the "do more with less" mentality. Subsequently, programs have extremely high turnover rates due to employee burnout and being multi-tasked to accomplish several different jobs that you weren't hired for. - Almost zero employee investment. #2 defense contractor. They could careless if you stay in the same position 2 years or 20 years. There are many employees that work 12+ hour days then turn around and are forced to seek higher certifications or training on their own limited free time. - Communication flow only exists between corporate and middle management. "The less the worker bees know the easier they are to control" methodology. Management won't teach you a thing about the company or their processes. If you want to understand what goes on within the company you'll spend countless hours surfing the internal websites trying to figure things out on your own.