Incredible Pay - Associate Pathways Systems Engineer Northrop Grumman Employee Review

5.0
May 4, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Northrop Grumman pays incredibly well, has flexible work arrangements, offers one week of shutdown each year at Christmas, and has great PTO and benefits.

Cons

PTO starts at 40 hours upon start date and accrues to 120 hours by the end of the year. It would be nice to start with a little more than 40 hours (other industry competitors seem to outmatch Northrop's PTO structure).

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5.0
Jul 15, 2026
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Pros

Good hours and fun work enviornment

Cons

Lower payscale for interns in SoCal

1.0
Jul 17, 2026
Recommend
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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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