Overall a depressing, verbally/mentally abusive work environment - Individual Contributor Northrop Grumman Employee Review

1.0
Feb 20, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Decent benefits & pay, but you will never get a raise or a bonus unless you are upper management. Good place to work if you are a director or higher.

Cons

No upward mobility unless apart of the 'chosen' group. Yes, there is a list of people who can move up. If you are not on it, forget it. You are either given way too much work or nothing at all. Some positions and people never have to work - others are given all of their work. Culture is horrible - everyone is afraid of being fired or hates their lives and makes everyone else miserable for no reason. Not a happy place to work. Bait & Switch - Ive spoken with several people since leaving that have now left because the job they were offered is not the job they were given when they started. Duties all change, work load is increased and when employees quit, they combine jobs. No compensation or title increase for increased work. Management 'rotation' programs - create more work for individual contributors, who are always training new management, and creates worry when each new manager wants to 'clean house' and bring in their friends into the department.

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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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