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      Northrop Grumman reviews

      3.8

      76% would recommend to a friend

      (13,340 total reviews)
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      Kathy Warden

      81% approve of CEO

      65% positive business outlook

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      Northrop Grumman has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 13,340 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Northrop Grumman employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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      13K reviews
      5.0
      Jun 13, 2008

      Wonderful Company!

      Manager
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      Pros

      Values employees, flex time and room to grow! In the past 10 years, I have worked in 5 different projects and have been promoted 5 times. Itis a place were you can grow and learn from others. Having a family and balancing work, traffic and the home life it is important to know you have flexibility. The main buildings are open 24 hours so flexing your time is easy. I have come into work at 5am before and left early to take care of personal apts. I have a lap top and can work from home as needed. Excellent company!

      Cons

      Lots of change as we become a unified company, but the end result will be excellent. I was with another company that was purchased by NG and the company is moving towards there is like policies, benefits, computer systems and career paths so it is easier to move around the company. This takes a lot of work and therefore there seems to be changes every year. Most are positive changes - like we received more vacation one year, benefit expenses were lowered as a result of coming together and soon all the grades and titles will be the same. Change is good...

      3.0
      Jun 13, 2008

      When you've had enough of other fun and challenging jobs, try to get a "coasting..." job in defense

      Software engineer
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      Pros

      A fantastic opportunity to see the Defense machine at work and get an early view at some really cool technology that public gets to see only decades later (if you're lucky to get on a project like that). The salary is decent compared to your peers, just make sure you negotiate well up front. Benefits (medical, 401, etc) are great but the incentive-based packages are non existent for non-managers (revenue sharing, stock options, bonus).

      Cons

      It's the nature of the beast, but still a downside - everything moves soooo slowly. But this would be a problem elsewhere as well - Raytheon, Lockheed, etc. You will never ever get to see a full project from acquisition to deployment until you get higher up to be included on the acquisition processes and become so useless that they don't move you to another project and let you coast on one forever. Most projects are miss-managed and developed with the Waterfall method which leads to buggy and delayed products. Forget about voicing your opinion if you haven't served in the military or haven't been there a million years. Speaking of which, the "good ol' boys" attitude of hiring and quickly promoting former military over well trained and seasoned engineers is pissing the heck out the generation of folks who didn't grow up with the draft, didn't serve (and didn't want to) and believed they were in a civilian job not the military.

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