Northrop Grumman Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Northrop Grumman full-time

Pros – Flexible working hours (depending on project).

Cons – Zero employee moralle, they don't care about their employees at all.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – Off every other Friday, work at times is interesting

Cons – Lousy raises, no promotions, benefits cut, holidays cut, pension eliminated, pay Not competitive and the threat of constant Layoffs. In the ELectronic systems sector they just increased raises to 18 months AND the average is 2 percent so you are only getting about 1.3 percent per year. Last year the raises we're only 2 percent.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay workers better and start giving raises again or risk losing workers

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Northrop Grumman full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – I worked in procurement and the people were great (not management though). Also there is a bar down the street to have a couple beers at lunch so you can get through the day. Pay and benefits were ok.

Cons – Basically everything. The company still thinks they are in the 80's. If you are a young person you will not be a manager for 30 years. Way too many levels of management and I do not know how most of these managers were hired. If you have drive and ambitious then say goodbye to it. Nothing is efficient, you have to get a signature for anything you do. Management thinks they know all and will not listen to the low level peasants of the company. There is a reason why Boeing and Lockheed are ahead of Northrop. Once most of the good old boys club of Northrop retires then maybe it will improve. If you are lazy and want someone to make terrible decisions for you then this is the company for you.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop laying off lower level employees and start laying off management. Whatever your first instinct is then do the opposite!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Northrop Grumman full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Worked with great knowledgeable people! Pay and benefits were OK! Minimum Supervision (only because the onsite managers didn't know or care what you were doing.)

Cons – No contact or communication with management. No chance for advancement. Had to bring own office supplies to work, Northrop Grumman did not supply them. Managers have no clue.

Advice to Senior Management – Need better communication and sharing of information.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – The pay is good and I like my co-workers...I just wish they'd stop laying them off!

Cons – Lots of lay-offs. Upper management seems more concerned with making sure that nothing peeks over the edge of the cubes, buying large screen tv's for the reception area than with improving by offering items such as training (not in the budget) or raises (Not even cost of living). Since there is little work, there is also no room for growth or upward mobility.

Advice to Senior Management – If you want to keep people from defecting to other companies you might want to change your priorities.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – Decent salary and benefits. Full education reimbursement.

Cons – The management makes technical decisions without consulting the technical staff. The management takes no responsibility for their actions and retaliates against employees that speak up or question their decisions. Northrop Grumman corporate refuses to acknowledge any of the problems at this branch and will not take any action. There have been 3 rounds of "reduction in force" with no reduction in management. I expect this place to be closed in 2 years with the way the management is running things. Soon there will be 1 employee and 300 managers. Sound like a good idea to me. Many good people have left voluntarily due to the incompetence of management.

Advice to Senior Management – Clean house and start over with a new set of managers.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Northrop Grumman full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The group of people I worked with, including my managers, were amazing. Together we beat many challenges, and I learned a whole heck of a lot. The opportunities to dig really deep into technical problems abound. I loved this aspect of the job.

Cons – There is a phenomenal amount of institutional mismanagement at this company - perhaps in the whole of Defense. Management spends so much of its time satisfying every whim of the customer and the government that they don't have time to correct deficiencies that prevent engineers from performing even the simplest tasks. For example, instead of correcting licensing issues the team was asked to work in shifts (that often spanned days) so that we didn't have idle engineers. There is no thought about improving efficiency, it's all about following a process and keeping your nose down. It's really sad to see such an opportunity for greatness squandered.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – Great place if you're lazy and prefer to not really work.

Cons – NG ES has managed to boil every job down to the most menial and excruciatingly boring task. There are so many layers of management, and non of them seem to have a clue. Raises come once a year if you're lucky and they don't keep up with inflation. The convoluted performance appraisal system is just a way for them to waste your time and in the end you'll receive the going raise +/- 1% depending on how your manager likes you.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop conducting gallup surveys to try to figure out how to better engage your employees. Drastic changes need to be made, nothing from a survey is going to help explain how to fix the severe cultural issues.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Northrop Grumman full-time

Pros – 9/80 Flex Time Off, health benefits

Cons – Incompetent management, raises/promotions based on what circle an employee spins in, no credit for good work done, managers allowed to act on personal biases towards subordinates, extremely-high level of undeserved hubris among some employees and managers, denied opportunities, an environment where turning in one's co-worker for frivolous reasons is highly encouraged, sub-standard compensation

Advice to Senior Management – Learn from "top" companies and maybe you wouldn't be ranked near the bottom!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – good salary, good location, good weather in SD

Cons – incopetent management . Too many warped egos in the white male dominated culture

Advice to Senior Management – leave the politics at the door

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend