Lots of Mental Masturbation - Engineer III Northrop Grumman Employee Review

1.0
Dec 15, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. It's a paycheck. 2. Low expectations. Makes #1 easy. Shouldn't really be a pro but after realizing that no matter how hard you work you're going nowhere, you just shrug your shoulders and take what you can get. 3. Good place to start a career, not a good place to stay.

Cons

1. Title says it all. The real value-added work, the cool stuff, goes either to senior people or the golden boys. 2. The 9/80 workweek is a recruiting gimmick. It's really a bait-and-switch. Don't expect to get anywhere if you don't show up on off-Fridays or put in overtime, which the company euphemistically calls "extended work week." 3. Crappy place to work if you're a woman or minority or gay. 4. Worked at this and other large aerospace defense firms. By and large NGC most resembles the Dilbert cartoons.

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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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