Overall a good place to work. - Software Engineer I Northrop Grumman Employee Review

4.0
Aug 17, 2008
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Pros

Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems is a good place to work because the company treats you like a family member rather than an "employee". Management understands when you have important things that you need to do outside of work and they work with you on a solution that benefits everyone. There are regular performance reviews that help you to know what areas you can improve in as well as the areas you are doing well in. The expectations of employees are realistic because most of the time management has been in your position and done your job. Overall it is a good place to work.

Cons

Northrop Grumman is a very large corporation so it takes a long time to get simple tasks done because of all the people things have to go through to get approved. There is also a lot of competition for every promotion and every job and it's easy to get overlooked because of how many employees the company has. In order to get the promotion you want it is many times necessary to move somewhere very undesirable like the middle of the desert because of the nature of the business Northrop Grumman does. In summary, the size of the company makes things more difficult than they need to do.

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