Northrop Grumman reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(13,303 total reviews)
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82% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Northrop Grumman has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 13,303 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Northrop Grumman employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aeroespacial y defensa industry (3.6 stars).

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2.0
Apr 3, 2020
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Pros

Large corporation with lots of opportunity to move around and get promoted. Decent salaries if you negotiate well. The ability to work a 9/80 schedule (9 hour days with every other Friday off) is the only reason I continue to work here. Good job stability - it seems impossible for them to fire people here, even when they are terrible at their job.

Cons

Senior management is always sending out announcements patting themselves on the back for "listening" and "caring about" employees, while their actions continue to reflect the opposite. The campus has been under construction for 4 years with inadequate parking. I have to walk nearly a half mile (in the street) or wait 10-15 min for a bus to take me from the parking lot to my building every day. Despite the employees being very vocal about these issues, they fall on deaf ears. Employees were promised a new campus center building with childcare, dry cleaning, and a gym. None of that happened due to senior management poor budgeting/planning. They ended up just planting more grass in the center of campus where a parking lot was desperately needed. Additionally, the way they've handled the COVID-19 outbreak has been disgraceful. They held off on instructing employees to work remotely for as long as they possibly could, when other defense/tech companies in the area had already been working remotely for weeks. They lied to the media in their press release when an employee came down with the virus. They said that they sent us all home "in an abundance of caution" yet more than half of the campus still had to report to work. They pretend to care about employee well-being but they don't. I'm just so tired of the lies. In all honestly, they are a giant corporation who, at the end of the day, only cares about the bottom line.

1.0
Jan 3, 2020

Treats the younger generation poorly

Anonymous employee
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Pros

You can sleep on the job with no repercussions and collect an easy paycheck. 9/80 isn't terrible. Tons of corporate lunches if you attend their internal propaganda meetings.

Cons

Blatant nepotism runs rampant. Policies and management change all the time just so corporate will have something to do. Salaries aren't that great; raises are stack ranked. Changes in tuition assistance makes the whole thing really not worth it. 3 year vest and 2 year commitment post money acceptance for grad school is excessive. HR will push you down if you don't have advanced engineering degrees, but there are old dudes as engineers with no degree at all. In the 3 years at NGC, I had 3 different jobs (only way to dig my salary out of HR low offers) and 10 different managers. Management was overall terrible and incompetent, more concerned with politicking than caring about their engineering products or engineers. If you aren't a suck up, you will have problems. If you don't want to be micromanaged, you will have problems. You will be a cog in the wheel here and nothing you do will actually matter. Corporate did nothing to counteract a bullying situation and I was illegally fired due to my depression. The East building at NGCMS also violated ITAR by shipping a T/R module to Asia and management tried to cover it up. Colleagues will drive the bus and report you for the silliest things in order to advance their careers.

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