slow promotions and high turnover with - Principal Systems Engineer Northrop Grumman Employee Review

Great company culture with strong long-term stability and career opportunities. Large campus with many internal growth paths, strong leadership, and exciting generational aerospace and defense programs. The company is emphasizing continuous learning and employee development, and the defense industry offers strong job security and resilience even as AI changes other industries.

Like many large companies, there is constant organizational change and shifting priorities, which can sometimes create uncertainty or slow decision making. However, this is common across most large corporations and comes with the scale and growth of the business.

High quality teams and products. The best engineers and teams I have ever had the pleasure of working with, hands down. Great people to work with on the daily.

Management across most departments is tone deaf to compensating and retaining talent. You are often given 3-5 hats to wear. Work life balance and raises (1-3%) are subpar. You really have to be strong and consistent in enforcing your boundaries with work/life balance and even then it can be frowned upon if you do not put in a certain amount of overtime. You were often asked to work late or on weekends for weeks to months at a time.