Northrop Grumman reviews

3.8

76% would recommend to a friend

(13,292 total reviews)
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81% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Northrop Grumman has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 13,292 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
Nov 12, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Get to see some cool stuff but ultimately, an aerospace company here to serve stake holders

Cons

Cut benefits to their education program mid school year with less than 2 months notice to find funding elsewhere. Then held a webinar where they failed to see how severely this impacts their employees. Regardless if you were in a approved graduate program you are now limited to 10k/yr which covers about 2 courses. It’ll take something like 8 years to complete a MS at that rate. Also still trying to enforce the 2 year retention liability if you took any sort of assistance even if you drop out cause you can no longer afford school with the NG backing. I would expect there will be some legal issues coming soon. Pulling a bait and switch on your own employees is not a good look.

1.0
Jan 27, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great cafeteria soup. Chicken Enchilada.

Cons

All sites are different. This is for Azusa. All of the good, kind, people-loving managers get forced out, and the soul-less task masters rise to the top. Employee morale is low. Shift work is often mandatory. Holidays can be forced work days. To quote a program lead "Holidays are working days too." Reduction in Force culls occur approximately every 18 months. Annual raises have been depressed for 5 years. Vacations have been reduced and sick days removed for unequal PTO tradeoff.

1.0
Feb 4, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

- There are some cool projects to work on. My current project is great and is the only reason I am still with the company. - Pay seems to be competitive with other large companies like Northrop Grumman.

Cons

- The company has changed from having a long-term focus and developing its employees as a vital resource to just hiring and firing whoever they need for a project. There is no job security and you will be laid off as soon as your project is complete. - The benefits used to be okay, but the company is cutting our benefits (like paid vacation) to save money. This is disturbing since the company is profitable and the senior officers are paid millions of dollars a year, while the actual engineers are treated worse each year. - It's become difficult to get money or other resources to do research or pursue technology that might benefit a customer. The company doesn't invest much in research anymore. - The company has become less agile over the last few years and now it's almost impossible to get a computer that's ideal for your work needs or to get permission to install needed software like VMware Workstation. The IT and other departments now make their own jobs easier at the expense of those of us who actually do the engineering work for our customers.

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