Northrop Grumman reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(13,297 total reviews)
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82% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Northrop Grumman has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 13,297 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Northrop Grumman employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Luft- & Raumfahrt, Verteidigung industry (3.6 stars).

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13K reviews
1.0
Jan 29, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay. Job security.

Cons

-Medical ins. is very lacking. Expect to pay a lot out of pocket. -A lot of people have to work 6 day work weeks continuously. -No sick time allotted. It comes out of PTO so people tend to come in when they are sick. -You will most likely not get to write software. -If you get to do software, which is a BIG if, management cares more about lines of code and number of issues fixed rather than the quality of the product. -You will most likely not get to write software (this needs to be said twice). -Management will likely retaliate or ignore you if you say anything, leaving you hopeless. -A lot of people are upset, leaving this campus with a very negative air about it -Very poor planning and scheduling. -There is a lot of fighting about how to do things because everyone wants to be the idea person; often the highest manager makes decisions based on their own personal opinion. -I have heard managers yelling and being aggressive towards employees multiple times. -Performance reviews are a joke. They give reviews based on a curve rather than on actual performance. That means you could be a top performer, but not get the rating because they didn't have any more "slots" open for top performers. -No telecommuting. I get that in some situation you can't but it still is a con as a lot of employers offer at least some degree of telecommuting.

2.0
Mar 4, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

A lot of smart people work here. They have good processes in place. Very few cliques and mostly inclusive of everybody.

Cons

Upper management has for the last few years has waged a continuous assault on benefits. From cutting down paid holidays (they recently cut the day after Thanksgiving), eliminating yearly profit share bonus for most employees, to massively raising the cost of health insurance and blaming it on Obamacare.

1.0
Dec 15, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

9 hour day shifts, every other Friday off. Flexibility.

Cons

Toxic environment to work. Legacy software with no documentation at all. Go Fish mentality. They throw you in the water and if you swim, you survive. Not a collaborative environment. People hold their knowledge (job security) and you get clues instead of answers when you try to resolve problems. You can go in circles for days trying to get an answer for a simple question or problem you need to solve in the system. There are only few people who know the system. All the others do not work there anymore. Defense industry depends on politics. At the meetings, managers forecast all the great opportunities and contracts to come but in reality they didn't have much. Defense industry has a lot of up and downs. Hence, lot of layoffs.

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