Excellent Place to work - Engineer Northrop Grumman Employee Review

5.0
Mar 4, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Higher salary bands and bonus potential compared to individual contributor roles • Greater influence on hiring, staffing, and team development • Strong leadership experience that opens doors to program or director-level roles • Ability to shape team culture and mentor younger engineers

Cons

Much less hands-on technical work • Heavy meeting load and administrative responsibilities (performance reviews, budgeting, HR issues) • Middle management can feel pressure from both leadership and employees • Advancement beyond section/department manager can be slow and somewhat political

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5.0
May 29, 2026
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Pros

Flexible work arrangement, 9/80 schedule, job security

Cons

Low pay, full time on site required for career growth

3.0
May 20, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Job security, nearly impossible to get laid off, Hours for most people are consistent, generally a good benefits package. You are able to jump around laterally within the company very easily. Once you get to T3 and above the salary becomes decent for prime standards. Easy, almost non-existent interviews.

Cons

Not moving fast enough in the current defense market. Lots of red-tape. Turnover at specific sites are insanely high. Promotions take forever and the increase in salary is minimal. They don't care about retention. They will let you walk and give your replacement a sign-on bonus and a higher salary. There are a lot of slackers and old timers riding it out till retirement. Only about a 1/3 of this site is actually productive. Yes-men get into management and ignore technical experts. Agile hiring is a huge issue where people are just thrown onto random teams. Easy, almost non-existent interviews allow people without relevant backgrounds to join teams. Every site operates completely differently.

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