Avis sur Northrop Grumman

Avantages

Technologie Reconnaissance Relations humaines Pas trop de pression

Inconvénients

Evolution Manque de consultation pour execution/stratégie Mono client

Conseils à la direction

Impliquer l'employer dans les décisions manageriales Tenir compte du feedback lors des déplacements sur site

Avantages

Northrop Grumman is a great place to work if you are a seasoned professional who values your life outside your job. If you work overtime, you get overtime pay at 100%, which is fantastic. As is pretty standard for the Defense industry, there is a program called 9/80, whereby if you work for 9 hours a day, you get every other Friday off. It's pretty great. There some tuition reimbursement, but it is contingent on... your manager approving it. Up to 6% 401(k) matching with a 3 year vesting cliff is nice as well. Lastly, Defense is a very stable industry that will always be around and never outsourced, which gives you enormous job security.

Inconvénients

Being a defense contractor, the pace of work is painfully-slow. Contracts are always delayed by months, which can be very frustrating for young professionals looking to make a splash in their career and stand out among the masses. Moreover, there is a huge problem with knowledge sharing. The old guard is retiring or getting grumpy at all the work they are doing to support their programs because their colleagues... of 20-30 years are retiring. There is incredible disorganization in onboarding materials and no clear system for how to learn the way Defense work gets done. Directors will point you to intranet websites with broken links, and there are few human beings who are dedicated to your continuous learning. It's all on you to ask questions, which makes you feel like a pest. Lastly, senior management feels immensely disconnected from frontline managers and their engineers. They talk in lofty terms without understanding how hollow and aimless their strategies are.

Conseils à la direction

Keep making efforts to raise base pay for engineers. You are competing with the tech sector, which is far sexier and pays more competitively. Also, there are lots of people loafing around; many of the people I have dealt with feel like they are there on a job welfare program. This is frustrating for people who actually want to accomplish something.

Avantages

Great salary, good benefits, great colleagues

Inconvénients

Stifled career growth, moving away from employee appreciation

Avantages

Prominent aerospace company working on a new launch vehicle.

Inconvénients

Rotation program needed to experience a wide variety of roles in the product life cycle.

Avantages

Team members, culture, work like balance

Inconvénients

Honestly nothing comes to mind as a con for me

Avantages

- 9/80 schedule - flexible working hours

Inconvénients

- bureaucracy - some managers aren't ideal

Conseils à la direction

One's experience really depends on the manager they are assigned. Employees, if you don't like what you're doing, it's easy to transfer to something you do like. Just find ask for one-on-ones to figure out what you want to do, where you would like to do that, and what gaps you may need to fill to get there. In my experience, NGC is in general a better place to work than similar giant defense contractors.

Avantages

Great benefits, Four 10 hour days, flexible scheduling

Inconvénients

Large company, Long commute, lots of paperwork

Avantages

Ability to move up within the company

Inconvénients

No cons at the moment

Conseils à la direction

Would like more oportunties to work from home