Would not recommend to family or friends - please read - Configuration Management Northrop Grumman Employee Review

1.0
Jun 19, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

The Northrop Grumman name is respected and established throughout the defense industry.

Cons

I would NOT recommend working out of the Rancho Carmel San Diego office in their Configuration Management group. There are too many cons to list. Myself as well as the majority of my colleagues had an extremely negative experience working here. Low morale in the group due to inefficient management practices, (some) toxic coworkers in cahoots with management, nonexistent HR, no room for growth even though we had qualifications and years of experience in this job function, hostile work environment, little to no training at the onset and throughout our time here, etc. There is a lot of turnover for a reason. Many of us were desperate to leave and jumped ship to other companies as well as other internal departments. The worst part was dealing with very aggressive management that made us feel uncomfortable and at times unsafe in the workplace. I am astounded at my experience here and hope anyone who considers working there will read this first.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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