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      Northrop Grumman

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      Northrop Grumman reviews about "management"

      64% positive business outlook

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      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.2

      Senior management

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      2K reviews
      3.0
      May 28, 2026

      Great teams and products, but management lacks awareness

      Engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      High quality teams and products. The best engineers and teams I have ever had the pleasure of working with, hands down. Great people to work with on the daily.

      Cons

      Management across most departments is tone deaf to compensating and retaining talent. You are often given 3-5 hats to wear. Work life balance and raises (1-3%) are subpar. You really have to be strong and consistent in enforcing your boundaries with work/life balance and even then it can be frowned upon if you do not put in a certain amount of overtime. You were often asked to work late or on weekends for weeks to months at a time.

      1.0
      May 19, 2026

      Don't recommend

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Chill and really easy work

      Cons

      Bad management, skipped over promos, forgotten employees

      3.0
      May 20, 2026

      slow promotions and high turnover with

      Principal systems engineer
      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.

      5.0
      May 17, 2026

      Supportive management but requires self-initiative

      System administrator
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Management was supportive of team members roadblocks and needs. Worked closed with other disciplines within the team in an Agile framework which was interesting.

      Cons

      At the time there was alot of autonomy which is good but also expect to have some self initiative and work with your manager to get mentorship and or work with people from other programs to build your skills and confidence.

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