Northrop Grumman Principal Software Engineer reviews

Very difficult to promote pass a level 2. You could be outperforming your job title but if you're 1 year short of their "minimum years" requirement, you wont get promoted. Their total pay range is dishonest. If the range is 100k-200k, you will never see the 200k. They will put you below 150k to start, make it difficult to get to the mid point, and then give you a lower raise to keep you as close to the mid point as possible.

Lower pay - the pay is much less than the tech industry, otherwise similar to others within industry Boring - I find myself atrophying with my technical aptitude when assigned tasks on projects that are decades old Tenure-based - level is largely based on YOE instead of contribution or ability RTO - I personally have been given projects that are remote and given projects that exist within a SCIF (no phones, no external internet on classified system) and projects within a SCIF can only be worked on-site Red Tape - updating classified software with unclassified software is not going to happen with existing projects, and even for newer projects, it takes a few months to even get it inside to start testing with real data and is usually not realistic for a newer-project timeline Coworker variance - some coworkers enjoy the work, are good at it, and know what they’re doing. Others do not nor do they care.