Work/Life Balance...... Not really.... - Principle Network Engineer Northrop Grumman Employee Review

3.0
Mar 24, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Offers competitive pay compared to other companies of it's size.

Cons

- The benefits that they offer are mediocre at best in my opinion. For instance, when it comes to the 401K, you have to be an employee for at least 3 years before they fully vest the match, where as unlike many other companies your match is fully vested day 1. - Very hard to get promoted here. Once you are in a position, you have to pretty much leave the company and come back in order to get promoted to a hire position. Even Applying when applying for another position with NG internally, most managers will not release you from your current position, even if you get offered the position. - For a company that throw around buzz phrases like "work/life balance" and "flexible work schedule", they do little to nothing to accommodate that. NG would rather you milk the clock so that they can milk the government customer vs being efficient and getting the job done early. In actuality it's often unofficially penalized for finishing a task early, especially if they have a lot of hours to "burn" on the task order. If they do, just know they will find "busy work" for you to do in order to charge the government even if no work was actually done.

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1.0
Jul 17, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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