Process Engineer - Process Engineer Northrop Grumman Employee Review

3.0
5 Feb 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people that make up this organization are amazing, smart, and excellent to work with. Someone is always willing to help out and we all realize the goal of the job is to protect the warfighter. At the lower levels, new ideas are always welcome.

Cons

A LARGE amount of bureaucracy. Upper management is completely detached and gets very little input from the ground floor, so much so that it has a very large impact on business in the long run. Favoritism and nepotism are near epidemic levels which prevent's the company from making actual progress.

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Northrop Grumman Response
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We appreciate you taking a moment to leave a review. We're happy to hear your thoughts on your fellow colleagues you listed among the pros. To address your cons, it's important to mention that Northrop Grumman’s management team is very concerned with employee engagement and is looking to implement strategies to increase employee satisfaction. We encourage you to get involved in opportunities to share your opinion, as we depend on our employees to help change culture for the better. For example, by listening to our employees, we've been working very hard to make work –life balance a high priority and it is now highly emphasized within the company.

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