Many many years working with NG and thought it was a great company - Software Development Engineer Northrop Grumman Employee Review

3.0
Aug 21, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Big company, and not supporting of their veterans (I know they have laid off disabled veterans before laying off others at the same skill level). It really depends where you work; If you work onsite with a customer, it's much more stressful and reactionary, if you work at a satellite, it's not as bad.

Cons

Being a big company and contracting for the government doesn't give NG any advantage over the smaller, non-profit, disabled, woman owned companies, etc.. It doesn't matter how good you do on the contract...the lowest bid will always win now. The annual performance reviews only allow a small portion of people to be excellent or out-performing. It doesn't matter how good you are and what your manager rates you at, you still can get kicked down to the "Successful Performer". Pay increases are reflected in that as well.

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5.0
May 7, 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent pay, benefits and work/life balance

Cons

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3.0
May 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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