All Aboard the Agile Bandwagon - Software Engineer Northrop Grumman Employee Review

1.0
28 Aug 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Negotiate a high salary from the start as raises are only 2.5-3% even if you work your butt off and kiss butt. Excessive turnover will allow you to meet lots of people for a short periods of time. Dulles campus is on the W&OD trail if you want to bike to work or go for lunchtime walks. 6% 401k match (but need 3 year vesting)

Cons

If you're good at playing the 'Agile' game, you will love it here. Two week sprints of randomly assigned, meaningless tasks; never work on the same thing twice; glorified secretary scrum-masters add an extra layer of required butt kissing on a daily basis. Huge hiring events followed by huge layoffs - never know whether you're 'safe' from the choppin' block. Feel like number.

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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
Business outlook

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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