Great People but Bureaucratic and Siloed - Systems Engineer Northrop Grumman Employee Review

3.0
Feb 13, 2018
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Pros

Excellent people of high character that are friendly. 9/80 work schedule is accepted by all management. Pay is pretty good. They are trying to get better and value employee feedback.

Cons

Poor collaboration, questionable quality of work, siloed work environment that they blame on need to know. You may sit on overhead for months before getting a halfway decent project. Even then it may only last a month. Being locked in a closed room sucks. Northrop needs less table scrap small contracts and more larger ones to keep people doing steady and interesting work.

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Cons

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1.0
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Cons

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