Northrop Grumman CEO and leadership

Agile Development project where we were the LSI

Workplace strife and poor management

Bonuses

Loved working with the executive leadership, travel and projects.

Would rather have a beach vacation every weekend on a tropical island!!! Rather than in Phoenix AZ desert.

Great facilities, with cafe, gym and their hybrid work schedule!

Team collaboration, level of diverse intelligence, and camaraderie.

Working remote away from my team and coworkers.

Tuition assistance

2 week shutdown during the Christmas holiday

Client groups are too large and HR does not receive enough support from HR management

A decent paycheck

freedom to resolve issues with little interference

travel

great co-workers and a caring management team

The work environment, bonuses, and management is well organized

No sick days. Have to take PTO if feeling sick.

Benefits across the market, i.e., gyms, auto, entertainment, and food.

Work life balance

Too much politics and drama

Healthcare and Retirement benefits

Talented staff, decent job security and benefits. Many of my coworkers are working on side projects, which can be submitted for internal funding or patent filing in exchange for a cash prize. The pay is good for my area, and you get to work on really cool and massively complex systems. Most employees I have encountered hold themselves to a high standard, are collaborative and knowledgeable, and motivated to have the team succeed. Although there seems to be a clear hierarchy and politics that come along with every big organization, I found that people generally expect you to contribute, and value your input even as a newer or less experienced employee. There's a bit of a sink or swim mentality, which I respect, but others might find intimidating. Leadership seems to be really investing efforts into making sure everyone is happy with their role, and retaining employees, even if that means transferring groups.

The IT systems are absolute trash! Our enterprise network is a jumbled mismatch of disassociated sites and DIY ventures from various software teams. No wifi at my office, despite being a 'wifi capable' facility - workaround is to create a guest account that must be re-provisioned weekly, and the wifi blocks access to most things other than email (Good luck trying to use Spotify!). You can join a coffee club, but don't expect the company to provide such luxuries. In the grand scheme of things - it's lacking the bells and whistles. On the program side, I have ran into difficulty finding information on a lot of their systems. There are so many different document repositories and data bases for projects that have spanned upwards of 2 decades, that the general lack of information organization becomes frustrating quite quickly.

9-80 Schedule, Holiday Shutdown (at the expense of other less-significant holidays), Bi-weekly pay structure, and good compensation.

Pretty area to live, got me secret DoD clearance, pay is adequate to competitive

Work culture is negative at best, mid level management is very poor, work site is very old, falling apart, and infested with cockroaches, rats and mice, traffic is terrible and quickly getting worse.

Looks good on a resume

Applying my technical expertise in requirements gathering, design, technical project management.