Northrop Grumman Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Northrop Grumman as an intern for less than a year

Pros – It is a great place to work, great people and management

Cons – high level of documentation required, takes some time to get up to speed with required documentation

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Northrop Grumman full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – The company uses cutting edge technology throughout and offers expertise in all areas.

Cons – Must make you own opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management – Share the business vision with design folk consistently.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Northrop Grumman full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Career advancement opportunities, benefits, flex work option

Cons – Some organizational silos exist, high pressure situations

Current Employee – been working at Northrop Grumman full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – If you are into defense the product & technology can wow you. For most departments it's a tight knit group. You can joke around with people, when it's appropriate. The work is often enjoyable. Informal name, usually just first names unless it's a common name, so many Joes, Johns & Jim's. Many of this generations executive management started at entry level, the do understand your job & the job difficulties.

Cons – Too many reorg's & renamed department titles. Sometimes processes & procedures are too much red-tape leaving you frustrated. Sound exhibition of The Peter Principle. More than a few employees work well into retirement and bogs down upward mobility. Sometimes it's hard to affect change because 'that's the way we have always done it.'. Too often the news that there was record profit for the term is followed by an announcement that raises will be lower that year. In a blizzard teams will work to clear the parking lots & announce that it is open, if you can't get it it is vacation & not a plant shutdown paid disaster. Lots of overtime to keep on schedule.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't hold the all hands meeting in the summer. The hangar is too hot. Demote the incompetent Peter Principal & adjust their pay appropriately. It may be ok if they leave for wage stagnation, that money should go to the people doing that persons job.

Former Employee – worked at Northrop Grumman full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Salary and benefits; technical expertise; leading edge opportunities; freedom to create

Cons – Impact of internal politics in management structure, and manager's desires for only brief descriptions of issues - makes management appear superficial; ignorant of customer needs for product support; concept that the product ends with engineering nad failure to recognize what it takes up front to make a product supportable after it's delivered. Short tem incentives drive long-term failure.

Advice to Senior Management – Bring in more support experts (primarily maintenance and supply) from military services and experienced civil service wholesale logistics specialists and make their career paths as lucrative as are the engineering career opportunities

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Northrop Grumman full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Very good benefits for health and wellness

Cons – Must be willing to relacate

Advice to Senior Management – Give all employees a chance to be proactive in there career fields

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Northrop Grumman full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good benefits, goog pay, stable secure good people

Cons – Politicsc, documentation to many old people

Current Employee – been working at Northrop Grumman full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – -Good process
-Good leadership
-Good resources and equipment

Cons – -Lots of red tape
-Days off can be stingy
-Overfocus on schedule

Advice to Senior Management – -Let your employees train all the time
-Improve scheduling technique

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Northrop Grumman

Pros – Many options to work on many technologies.

Cons – It is what you make of it... you find your own opportunities

Advice to Senior Management – maintain competitive pay and strengthen retirement options

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Northrop Grumman

Pros – The work is very interesting and the pay and benefits are excellent.

Cons – It's a secret environment so information is tightly controlled.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep doing what you are doing.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend