They pretend to care about employees, but when it comes down to doing the right thing, they never do - Engineer Northrop Grumman Employee Review

2.0
Apr 3, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Large corporation with lots of opportunity to move around and get promoted. Decent salaries if you negotiate well. The ability to work a 9/80 schedule (9 hour days with every other Friday off) is the only reason I continue to work here. Good job stability - it seems impossible for them to fire people here, even when they are terrible at their job.

Cons

Senior management is always sending out announcements patting themselves on the back for "listening" and "caring about" employees, while their actions continue to reflect the opposite. The campus has been under construction for 4 years with inadequate parking. I have to walk nearly a half mile (in the street) or wait 10-15 min for a bus to take me from the parking lot to my building every day. Despite the employees being very vocal about these issues, they fall on deaf ears. Employees were promised a new campus center building with childcare, dry cleaning, and a gym. None of that happened due to senior management poor budgeting/planning. They ended up just planting more grass in the center of campus where a parking lot was desperately needed. Additionally, the way they've handled the COVID-19 outbreak has been disgraceful. They held off on instructing employees to work remotely for as long as they possibly could, when other defense/tech companies in the area had already been working remotely for weeks. They lied to the media in their press release when an employee came down with the virus. They said that they sent us all home "in an abundance of caution" yet more than half of the campus still had to report to work. They pretend to care about employee well-being but they don't. I'm just so tired of the lies. In all honestly, they are a giant corporation who, at the end of the day, only cares about the bottom line.

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5.0
Apr 13, 2026
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Pros

Steady work and interesting projects. Really positive culture with engaged Employee Resource Groups. A good mix of long-term managers, and those moving up. Reverse commute from a good chunk of Los Angeles along the 101. Benefits standard good. Getting paid for extra hours during crunch times is nice vs. standard salary for most engineering companies. Still salary when there are brief lulls in projects.

Cons

Bad commute from Ventura Big return to site push even for roles that don't need it.

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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