Mentally and physically draining marred by poor leadership, nepotistic behavior, and toxic culture - Anonymous employee Northrop Grumman Employee Review

1.0
26 May 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The mission and programs are interesting.

Cons

Toxic work culture, poor functional management that is clearly untrained and not empowered, lack of support or promotional growth, and crazy hours. You literally have to get offers from elsewhere and threaten to leave for them to take you seriously. If your employees have to bond around how bad it is just to cope, you know you’re doing something wrong. Truly a waste of my years both professionally and probably off of my overall life from the enormous stress.

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Pros

Job security, nearly impossible to get laid off, Hours for most people are consistent, generally a good benefits package. You are able to jump around laterally within the company very easily. Once you get to T3 and above the salary becomes decent for prime standards. Easy, almost non-existent interviews.

Cons

Not moving fast enough in the current defense market. Lots of red-tape. Turnover at specific sites are insanely high. Promotions take forever and the increase in salary is minimal. They don't care about retention. They will let you walk and give your replacement a sign-on bonus and a higher salary. There are a lot of slackers and old timers riding it out till retirement. Only about a 1/3 of this site is actually productive. Yes-men get into management and ignore technical experts. Agile hiring is a huge issue where people are just thrown onto random teams. Easy, almost non-existent interviews allow people without relevant backgrounds to join teams. Every site operates completely differently.

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