Northrop Grumman reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(13,303 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 13,303 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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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.

1.0
May 25, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None. Northrop basically ruined this company (Xetron).

Cons

Illegal age discrimination. It should be noted that the vast majority of reviews for this location are by new hires right out of college that don't know any better.

2.0
Apr 17, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Stable job. Depending on projects, some can be relaxing, if you are in a unclassified project, you can work from home. Classified projects have more crazy hours. Benefits are decent. There are some attempts to modernize outside of classified projects.

Cons

Ineffective upper managers. I proposed a tool to use to my manager. I created a proof of concept that worked and reduced the manual process by 90%. Multiply this by X which could save the company millions of dollars. I had to pitch it to an even higher upper manager, lead director level. He shot it down. I quit that team due to major differences in approaches and joined a different project. Guess what, a C level manager got a whiff that the project was not modernized enough. Then a months later, they took what I had done before and placed their name on it and shipped it. I didn't get any "Thank You"s or "Good Job". Hiring managers don't care about your career. There was a time-span of a few months where I was jumping from project to project with no clear goal as to where I was ending up. When I said I wanted to work in Python, I worked in C++ instead. They don't care. This is not a company for young people to work in. Too many old people caked in there old practices. If you want to be impactful and learn, don't join, you will just be disappointed. If you want to learn best practices, there is nothing to learn here. No one so far I found was competent enough at there job. Its all bandages and no surgery. Technical debt is crazy high. Teams that say they do "agile" but are not, don't even include the word "iterative" in their definition of "agile".

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