A great place to learn and grow - seriously - Program Manager Northrop Grumman Employee Review

4.0
Sep 15, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Perhaps not as well know about Northrop Grumman is the immense training opportunities. Having had a Master's degree paid for in full, I can attest to value of the education reimbursement benefit alone. Further than that, however, there are online training resources from multiple providers which is great for collecting continuing education requirements needed to keep certifications active. Some of the System Administration/Cyber folks really like the automated record-keeping for turning in their credits. Northrop Grumman also has developed many great internal training programs which have *always* been fantastic. Particularly good courses have been Earned Value for Large Programs, Six Sigma Black Belt, PM1, and all of the Capture and Proposal courses. Some of these programs are notoriously intensive - as in find a local hotel and prepare to work late. In addition to these internal training offerings, there are internal Communities of Practice (CoP) which have events as large as some international organizations. For example, there is the System Engineering community which has a large convention at the Los Angelos space campus. There is also a very thriving Agile CoP which has had industry leaders (like current Agile authors and even the lead from Caterpillar Tractors).

Cons

The slight ding on the Job Security score is do simply to the nature of the defense industry. The market will force management to make cuts at the expense of employees - fee is sacrosanct.

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Cons

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Pros

Mission driven, smart engineers who understand and believe in the mission. Low cost insurance compared to other primes. Great experienced resources across sectors. Big company with opportunities to transfer into different positions and sectors.

Cons

Only applies to the local site in Northridge. Chaotic, last minute changes. Leadership or leads are running it all to the ground and resisting changes to assimilate into Northrop grumman culture. Inadequate process/procedures, and resistant to positive changes for years has made the site unbearable. Worst employment retention as years go by and HR or leadership at top do not care. Most of the talent has joined other internal sites, other companies, retired due to burn out, stress and workload. Unkept promises, low or no raise and ok bonuses. Mass exit happening every week and supercedes the inexperienced hires being added. Corporate wants to change the site but the leaders and few legacy employees are fighting to preserve their toxic work culture. The very few who should leave are rude, unprofessional, bullies, protected by their leaders, HR doesn't care at the site level. Join other sectors and sites do not come here. It's mostly young inexperienced engineers and few legacy talent left. Learning is expected on the job, expectation can be impossible due to old inadequate policies, overwhelming workload wearing multiple hats.

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