I stay for the benefits - Principal Tooling Engineer Northrop Grumman Employee Review

3.0
Feb 26, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

401k Matching starts at 100% of the 1st 4% & 50% of the next 4% and after you've been at the company long enough (I think that's how it works), it bumps to 50% of the next 6%. PTO is good too. You start at 3 weeks and bump up regularly. Caps at 200 hrs. You can roll over 2x your annual accrual. Education assistance.

Cons

You'll get moved to a classified program with no pay bump. In my current role, management will work you at a higher level and you don't get compensated for it or promoted. Very bad at employee retention. Lots of changes to policy and procedure all the time and no one know what they're doing. No sick time. Since the company is so big, your SOW is very narrow and the longer you stay the harder it is to leave b/c your experience becomes limited to very few areas - your only opportunity is to do the same job for a different company. Operators/technicians are micromanaged and treated like children.

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5.0
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Pros

Work life balance is great

Cons

Slow paced environment, lots of waiting

3.0
Jul 7, 2026
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Pros

The people you work for directly are wonderful professionals. They listen and truly work together as a team, sharing their ideas and critiques freely and fairly. Even the managers, leads and program mangers are the best I have worked with in a while.

Cons

The Csuite are not as inventive and very risk averse. They cry about needing to keep talent and keep the knowledge base from being lost. But when a program gets canceled or stop work, if you arent at one of their main work sites like in Dulles or Gilbert, you are out of luck now with their push of no "remote" work. And by remote that means not at whatever site the managers are at. And it isnt the managers choice either as the corporate pushes them to deny "remote" or make their lives miserable if they try to keep current employees that could fill the role at other offices.

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