Northrop Grumman reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(13,303 total reviews)
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Kathy Warden

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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1.0
Dec 13, 2015

At least when Rome burned...there was music....Doors Closing

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good Benefits, nice people, try to be ethical

Cons

Too much worthless "help" from Corporate, Sector, Division... Very little energy to succeed and current leadership is extremely risk adverse (and not that knowledgeable) so success will be a challenge.

1.0
Oct 10, 2015

This is a terrible place to work.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decent pay, flexible hours, that's it.

Cons

Everything else. Not good benefits. No recognition of talent. Everything is a firedrill and therefore gets done half right. The Rolling Meadows location feels like you're working in a dungeon. The building has no windows and sucks the life out of you. The company only spends contract money, and refuses to spend overhead, meaning that you end up having to "donate" your own time to work a lot - this is the worst policy the company has.

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Northrop Grumman Response
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Thank you for your comments. We appreciate you sharing your concerns and feedback with us. While we don’t profess to be perfect, we are working hard and devoting significant resources to employee engagement, diversity, and inclusion efforts to create the best culture possible for our workforce. We are also directing significant spending in R&D and capital projects to make sure that we have the cutting-edge technologies and solutions that our customers want, and that our employees have the latest tools and equipment. We are sure that employees at this facility recognize that the very sensitive nature of the work that we do there, plus the wide range of development, manufacturing, and testing activities under way in all parts of the campus, do not always allow us to provide as many windows or as many open spaces as we would like. But we continue to upgrade and improve common spaces at our facilities to make them more energy efficient, safe, and comfortable for our folks and I think you’ll see positive developments in the near term. Our sector Executive Leadership Team emphasizes to all of our people that there should be no fear in providing feedback, whether it be positive or negative, about our leadership, our policies and practices, and about workplace decisions that affect their daily quality of work-life and ability to perform at our best for our customers. PLEASE, take advantage of your local all-hands meetings, focus groups, roundtable discussions, employee engagement projects, and Employee Resource Groups to share your concerns and suggestions for constructive change and improvement. Your immediate Management chain and Human Resources personnel are also there to listen and to provide opportunities to make workplace and culture changes that can benefit you and your colleagues. Finally, our Employee Assistance Plan and our 24/7 OpenLine are other resources for you to explore and utilize, particularly if you wish to remain anonymous.
3.0
Aug 19, 2015
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Pros

If you're an engineer of some sort, your work can be really interesting and important. If you're not an engineer, it's much harder to find positions that offer any kind of new/exciting work. As most people have said, it's a decent place to build experience if you have no better options; just don't expect to really build anything lasting.

Cons

A select few executives are really making an effort to bring NG into the 21st century, but they are being constantly battled by an entrenched core of management who do everything they can to stymie any progress. These mediocre managers are good at playing the bureaucracy and political games, so they don't want to see meritocracy take hold. The company claims to want the best and brightest (to compete with the likes of Google and Apple), but they aren't willing to invest the resources to compete (salaries, bonuses, perks, etc). It's tough on morale because you hear all these awesome goals for the company, but then you watch each initiative slowly starve from lack of funding, lack of progress and lack of follow-through.

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