I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Northrop Grumman (Baltimore, MD) in Jan 2009
Interview
Applied through an undergraduate on-campus interview process. I was selected for a 30 minute screening interview with a hiring manager to assess my interests and typical behavioral interview questions were asked. After passing the initial screening, there was a two-day interview process at a hotel with a casual dress code. The first day was a company presentation by HR and a dinner with employees ranging from 2-5 years of experience. The second day was half corporate-campus tour and half interviews. The campus tour was a good way to meet fellow applicants. The interviews were 4 1-on-1 interviews with a mix of senior level engineers and program managers from different groups in the company. At the end of the interviews there was a panel of recent hires to answer any additional questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interview process was laid back and mostly geared towards assessing my personality and fit within the company, so most of the questions were repeats from other corporate engineering interviews. Describe your approach to solving problems and then describe how you implemented the process on a particular project in either work or school.
They contacted me for an in person interview and then asked me leet code style questions. After the interview I heard back from a recruiter who set up another phone call with me
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Northrop Grumman (Boulder, CO) in Jun 2026
Interview
Very poorly conducted and rushed interview process. The team seemed to contradict themselves in their perception of the duties required for the job, in addition to their perception of my experience and qualifications. One senior member of the team seemed to have not read my resume at all in advance for the interview, only reading it during the interview, and then sarcastically and condescendingly asked why it seemed like I had "nothing on the resume that seems applicable to the position". At that point, the interview went from conversational to interrogational, and additional members of the team continued to condescend and ask questions irrelevant to my experience that were apparently relevant to the job description, that had been left out of the official job requisition. Overall, it was a complete mismatch in expectations due, in my perspective, to poor communication and organization amongst the team at Northrop Grumman, and ended up being a complete waste of time for me. I would not recommend working with this team and am not interested in interviewing for further positions at Northrop Grumman.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your experience with software development?
I interviewed at Northrop Grumman (Huntsville Park, AL)
Interview
Technical questions and behavioral questions (STAR formatting) with the normal what draws you to work for us. Microsoft Teams meeting with a panel to review answers. Took roughly 1 hour and it was a very straightforward and easily made process.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Northrop Grumman with 2.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 68% positive. To compare, the company-average is 74.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 224 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Northrop Grumman overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Northrop Grumman as a Software Engineer according to 224 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 17%
Group panel interview: 17%
Phone interview: 17%
Skills test: 13%
Background check: 11%
Drug test: 9%
Personality test: 6%
Presentation: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Other: 2%
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