Great teams and products, but management lacks awareness - Engineer Northrop Grumman Employee Review

3.0
May 28, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

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.

Cons

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.

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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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