This place will exponentially drain your life away like the machine in the movie The Princess Bride! - Engineer Northrop Grumman Employee Review

2.0
Jun 24, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Innovative projects/programs - Good coworkers - Decent benefits - multiple locations HR has a stellar reputation for conflict resolution.

Cons

- Horrible middle management. They are given full decision making autonomy while rarely being held accountable. If you're hired on to a program or project team with this type of questionable leadership, you are doomed. - Zero work/life balance. At the direction of senior managent to cut cost, deliver on spec, and on schedule, middle management grossly under hires the required number of personnel for teams while utilizing the "do more with less" mentality. Subsequently, programs have extremely high turnover rates due to employee burnout and being multi-tasked to accomplish several different jobs that you weren't hired for. - Almost zero employee investment. #2 defense contractor. They could careless if you stay in the same position 2 years or 20 years. There are many employees that work 12+ hour days then turn around and are forced to seek higher certifications or training on their own limited free time. - Communication flow only exists between corporate and middle management. "The less the worker bees know the easier they are to control" methodology. Management won't teach you a thing about the company or their processes. If you want to understand what goes on within the company you'll spend countless hours surfing the internal websites trying to figure things out on your own.

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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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