Company is out of touch...Junior engineers beware: cuts to education assistance. - Mechanical Engineer Northrop Grumman Employee Review

1.0
7 Nov 2019
Recommend
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Pros

-Semi stable assignments -experienced senior staff -classified programs -flexible work times -possible to transfer departments with some effort.

Cons

-corporate management is out of touch with employees. -accountability is not a priority. -profits most important at end of day. -uncompetitive salary/raises. -hurry up and wait -education assistance keeps getting cut. NEW GRADS BEWARE: education assistance benefit cut to $10K per year Jan 1, 2020. If you are expecting to study for a Master's degree while working, you may be served better elsewhere. Employees in the middle of a master's program will not be grandfathered in, meaning multiple hundreds of employees are being stuck with massive out of pocket costs and others are contemplating dropping their programs. Others are now dissuaded from starting in the first place because of this change.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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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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