I applied online. I interviewed at Northrop Grumman in May 2025
Interview
I had a basic phone interview with a recruiter where I bragged about my skills, then an interview with two team members where I continued to brag about myself. There were 0 technical questions. It's basically impossible to fail as long as you have the skills they need.
Throughout this process, my HR rep never communicated with me nor answered my questions. She even got my name completely replaced by someone else's name. I'm not sure if she was a very rude human or a very poorly programmed bot. Either way it was a terrible first impression.
When I finally got my offer letter I was only given two days to respond. So since I got my letter on Tuesday, I had to give them an answer by Thursday and they wouldn't budge on that deadline for some reason. I think that is straight up coercion. It reeked of trying to get me to accept a sh!tty offer before I had time to consider my other options. My one saving grace was that they had forgotten to include relocation assistance in my package (LOL!) and had to delay giving me my offer by a week, by which time I had already accepted a much better and less scumbag company.
They contacted me for an in person interview and then asked me leet code style questions. After the interview I heard back from a recruiter who set up another phone call with me
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Northrop Grumman (Boulder, CO) in Jun 2026
Interview
Very poorly conducted and rushed interview process. The team seemed to contradict themselves in their perception of the duties required for the job, in addition to their perception of my experience and qualifications. One senior member of the team seemed to have not read my resume at all in advance for the interview, only reading it during the interview, and then sarcastically and condescendingly asked why it seemed like I had "nothing on the resume that seems applicable to the position". At that point, the interview went from conversational to interrogational, and additional members of the team continued to condescend and ask questions irrelevant to my experience that were apparently relevant to the job description, that had been left out of the official job requisition. Overall, it was a complete mismatch in expectations due, in my perspective, to poor communication and organization amongst the team at Northrop Grumman, and ended up being a complete waste of time for me. I would not recommend working with this team and am not interested in interviewing for further positions at Northrop Grumman.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your experience with software development?
I interviewed at Northrop Grumman (Huntsville Park, AL)
Interview
Technical questions and behavioral questions (STAR formatting) with the normal what draws you to work for us. Microsoft Teams meeting with a panel to review answers. Took roughly 1 hour and it was a very straightforward and easily made process.