Northrop Grumman reviews about "people"

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.

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.

Bit slow of pace of work.

Poor management, lack of opportunities to learn new things, no "engineering" really being done. PTO accumulation really slow for the first 2 years.

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.

Some programs tend to spin their wheels without any direction. Pay can always be better. New hires command higher salaries rather than giving raises to current employees.

1. Theres more talk of making change than acting upon the steps to make the change 2. Internal promotions are challenging and you have to work the system to make it happen 3. Processes often get in the way of innovation