Great people mostly, until you’re a cog - Program Manager Northrop Grumman Employee Review

3.0
23 Sept 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Many great coworkers - intelligent, respectful, and generally expect one another to be competent, genuine and straight forward.

Cons

Not keeping up with industry and government trends of mission transitions to private sector. Need to change positions every 2-3 years if not an engineer, and to maintain at least 50% + workload on program work vs internal work or risk being cut if times get tough with customer awards. When times get tough, you will be put on a shortlist to try to find a new job within the company, but with not enough time to actually get through NG’s own internal interviewing timelines. Immediately up your 401k and be prepared to be let go in a reduction in force. They don’t give you enough time to actually get placed, and once you’re severed you become an outside applicant. Trending back to in office work, even though employees work with different offices across the country, or have long meeting commutes across onsite campuses vs quick virtual transitions. Awful audio in conference rooms, making hybrid meetings not ideal. Women still seem to be sidelined in some areas and hired at lower pay.

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5.0
8 June 2026
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Pros

Consistent work with lots of future growth in Utah

Cons

Disorganized management leading to high turnover, attrition, and burnout for those being managed

3.0
20 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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