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    Found 4511 reviews

    3.7
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    70%
    Recommend to a Friend
    87%
    Approve of CEO
    Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden
    Kathy Warden
    101 Ratings
    Pros

    • "Working the 9/80 schedule is wonderful, because you have 3 day weekends every other week" (in 344 reviews)

    • "Good work life balance when there is no schedule pressure" (in 326 reviews)

    Cons

    • "Also, upper management never seems to have much interest in the lower folk" (in 121 reviews)

    • "large company not always easy to move up" (in 96 reviews)

    More Pros and Cons

    1. "-"

      StarStarStarStarStar
       

      I have been working at Northrop Grumman

      Pros

      Very good place to work

      Cons

      No major issues come to mind

      Northrop Grumman2018-07-03

    2. "Human Resources"

      StarStarStarStarStar
       

      I worked at Northrop Grumman for more than 10 years

      Pros

      Decent base pay and benefits

      Cons

      Continuously changing policies and procedures and changes don't always add value.

      Northrop Grumman2015-08-19
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    3. Helpful (4)

      "Stable but Slow"

      StarStarStarStarStar
      • Work/Life Balance
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      • Compensation and Benefits
      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Systems Engineering Manager in Rolling Meadows, IL
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Northrop Grumman full-time for more than a year

      Pros

      Northrop Grumman is a great place to work if you are a seasoned professional who values your life outside your job. If you work overtime, you get overtime pay at 100%, which is fantastic. As is pretty standard for the Defense industry, there is a program called 9/80, whereby if you work for 9 hours a day, you get every other Friday off. It's pretty great. There some tuition reimbursement, but it is contingent on... your manager approving it. Up to 6% 401(k) matching with a 3 year vesting cliff is nice as well. Lastly, Defense is a very stable industry that will always be around and never outsourced, which gives you enormous job security.

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      Cons

      Being a defense contractor, the pace of work is painfully-slow. Contracts are always delayed by months, which can be very frustrating for young professionals looking to make a splash in their career and stand out among the masses. Moreover, there is a huge problem with knowledge sharing. The old guard is retiring or getting grumpy at all the work they are doing to support their programs because their colleagues... of 20-30 years are retiring. There is incredible disorganization in onboarding materials and no clear system for how to learn the way Defense work gets done. Directors will point you to intranet websites with broken links, and there are few human beings who are dedicated to your continuous learning. It's all on you to ask questions, which makes you feel like a pest. Lastly, senior management feels immensely disconnected from frontline managers and their engineers. They talk in lofty terms without understanding how hollow and aimless their strategies are.

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      Advice to Management

      Keep making efforts to raise base pay for engineers. You are competing with the tech sector, which is far sexier and pays more competitively. Also, there are lots of people loafing around; many of the people I have dealt with feel like they are there on a job welfare program. This is frustrating for people who actually want to accomplish something.

      Northrop Grumman2019-09-10

    4. "Great place to work"

      StarStarStarStarStar
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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Senior Principal Engineer in Lawton, OK
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Northrop Grumman full-time for more than 10 years

      Pros

      Travel to foreign lands, work on the state of art equipment and work with great professionals

      Cons

      There are no cons to working for a great company.

      Northrop Grumman2019-09-18

    5. "Great place to work, generally low stress"

      StarStarStarStarStar
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      • Senior Management
      Former Employee - Software Engineer in Baltimore, MD
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      I worked at Northrop Grumman full-time for more than 5 years

      Pros

      Great, interesting projects and great work/life balance; I love the 9/80 work week!

      Cons

      Navigating career advancement can be tough/a little arbitrary in such a large company

      Northrop Grumman2019-09-18

    6. "PCS"

      StarStarStarStarStar
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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Electronics Technician 
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Northrop Grumman full-time for more than 10 years

      Pros

      Great salary, good benefits, great colleagues

      Cons

      Stifled career growth, moving away from employee appreciation

      Northrop Grumman2019-09-17

    7. "My Northrop Grumman Review"

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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Software Engineer in Redondo Beach, CA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Northrop Grumman full-time for more than a year

      Pros

      The company wins contracts to work on some pretty important and innovative programs.

      Cons

      The con is, the company is so big that you can fall into a crack and become unuseful if you do not speak up to your interests. Also, just because the company is working on cool products doesn't mean you will get anywhere close to making an actual impact. Too many acronyms for newer employees to relate to and the age gap is a problem for recent graduates.

      Northrop Grumman2019-09-18

    8. "Great company for career growth"

      StarStarStarStarStar
      Former Employee - Intern 

      I worked at Northrop Grumman full-time for less than a year

      Pros

      Prominent aerospace company working on a new launch vehicle.

      Cons

      Rotation program needed to experience a wide variety of roles in the product life cycle.

      Northrop Grumman2019-09-16

    9. "Greate"

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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Associate Software Engineer 
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Northrop Grumman full-time for less than a year

      Pros

      Team members, culture, work like balance

      Cons

      Honestly nothing comes to mind as a con for me

      Northrop Grumman2019-09-15

    10. "Very good place to work"

      StarStarStarStarStar
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      Current Employee - Staff Engineer in Melbourne, FL
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      I have been working at Northrop Grumman full-time for more than 10 years

      Pros

      overall company is very good

      Cons

      upper management is more concerned about there promotions and bonuses than the product and their employees The title for junior staff should be changed to CEO because the younger employees think two years of work experience entitles them to upper management promotions

      Northrop Grumman2019-09-14
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