Northrop Grumman Reviews in Baltimore, MD

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

Pros – The company is willing to work with you and aid in your desired direction for your career. The pay is adequate for the area. You can move up in your career field easily or change careers within the company as well with ease.

Cons – Management forgets to inform you of the decisions that reflect you in a timely manner. The company is dependent on military contracts that are currently down. The companies culture is a learning environment and everyone is there to help you for the most part.

Advice to Senior Management – More communication with employees is always helpful with lower management.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Good benefits, great location. Not a bad commute.

Cons – Huge bureaucracy. Nothng will ever progress until it is after the fact.

Advice to Senior Management – I don't think I can change management. They are already ingrained into the system.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Freedom to do a variety of engineering tasks within my discipline

Cons – Several rounds of layoffs in the past few years.

Advice to Senior Management – People matter as much as the bottom line.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Big company benefits, opportunties, word-class products and services, geographically dispersed, teleworking opportunities, long-term career options, and very professional culture.

Cons – Constant reorganzation, impacted by federal spending, sometimes works like small companies within one big company, sometimes not seen as an individual.

Yes, I would 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 a year

Pros – As a large company it provides various opportunities for engineers early in their careers to try out different roles and a position that fits with both their strengths and personality. The company is involved in full life-cycle product development from inception to customer delivery to maintenance so it is possible to participate in multiple stages of a product's path to creation.

Those who perform well and aggressively seek out opportunities can find a rewarding career at Northrop. Once you exit the company it is a large and known company on your resume to point to in future interviews.

Cons – Access to the best opportunities requires a combination of luck and ninja networking tactics to get noticed by senior engineers or program managers.
Top performers who are not vocal about their career aspirations can find themselves stuck on a project and with a depressed salary.
Performance reviews are administered by a manager that meets with you at most twice a year. The review manager is a different individual then the employee's direct supervisor (likely an engineer) and program manager. The advancement process can seem slow and linear to the ambitious but this is common in most large corporations and not specific to Northrop.

Advice to Senior Management – Streamline the process for approval of research projects and submission for outside publication. The performance review process should be administered by a direct supervisor of the employee. A manager that meets with an employee once or twice a year is likely not in a position to recognize or advocate for top talent.

Modify the advancement process for engineers so title and pay is tied more towards performance, ability, and future prospects than to class year and graduate degrees.

Reduce the layers of management and bureaucracy between the engineers and senior management.

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 full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – I can't find the pros of working here.

Cons – horrible benefits, facing many rounds of layoffs, barely any raise

Advice to Senior Management – You should value your employees more

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 a year

Pros – Big company, lots of opportunities.

Cons – You are just a statistic, must work extremely hard to earn your 'rewards'!

Advice to Senior Management – Reserved

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 – There are lots of opportunities in all areas of software engineering

Cons – It is easy to get locked into a single business area

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – The Professional Development Program allows new employees just entering the workforce from college to rotate through several positions and familiarize themselves with the company. Salaries are competitive, and the Baltimore area has a lot of opportunities for professional growth.

Cons – Some parts of the company have been experiencing flat growth or contraction in the last few years. There is considerable uncertainty over where the defense industry is headed in the near future.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide as many opportunities for training and growth as possible, especially for young professionals.

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