I've found a lot of options to move around, learn new things, and advance my career.
I would appreciate more of a focus on improving efficiency/ease of use of tools that help support our day-to-day work functions.
I will be getting the offer in next couple days. Need to find out what is the level/salary range associated at Principal/Sr.Principal/Staff Engineering. The position is in SoCal. Recruiter said offer is for Sr. Principal level Does NG offer different Salary range for NorCAl and SoCal locations? TC...Read more
I have around 2 year of experience working for Northrop Grumman, I see all these other engineers getting double my total compensation with my same years of experience. Is difficult to apply to big tech since most of them require plus 5 years of experience now.
>Can you create a tier list of best companies to work at as a SWE, based on overall factors like total compensation, prestige, benefits, potential advancement, coolness of tech / product, work-life balance? Create 5 tiers, from tier 0 to tier 5, with tier 0 being best obviously. Don’t make tier 0
4 YOE at Northrop Grumman as a Systems/signal processing engineer with coding and limited ML experience; I do not have good ML fundamentals but want to break into an MLE/DS role within FAANG to get more adequate compensation and be in my area of interest…should a masters be in the cards at all? P.S...Read more
Hello Blind I have three offers. I wanted to get Blind input on compensation. I currently live in LA working at Northrop Grumman as a Sr. Embedded Software Engineer with 5 yoe . Finished my masters this year in comp sci. Raytheon Sr Embedded Software Engineer LA locat6 Base pay - 147k Sign on 33k ...Read more
I have the final interview for Deloitte coming up and they seem pretty desperate to fill this role. It's for a government role doing mainly DevOps. In the job description, they don't mention "consultant". But I am worried about how "secure" this job is? I believe the total comp would be around 140k ...Read more
Hello Blind I have three offers. I wanted to get Blind input on compensation. I currently live in LA working at Northrop Grumman as a Sr. Embedded Software Engineer with 5 yoe . Finished my masters this year in comp sci. Raytheon Sr Embedded Software Engineer LA locat6 Base pay - 147k Sign on 33k ...Read more
Hey guys, currently I’ve been working at Northrop Grumman for about 2 years. I’ve come to a stopping point and haven’t been learning anything useful for my future. I’ve been trying to get a new job out of defense for over 6 months now. However, I feel that my current work at Northrop doesn’t relate ...Read more
Hello Blind I wanted to get Blind input on working at Amazon. I currently live in LA working at Northrop Grumman as a Sr. Embedded Software Engineer with 5 yoe . Finished my masters this year in comp sci. Amazon #seattle Would this title of System development engineer title make it harder for me ...Read more
Every time I go to subreddits, tiktok, blind posts etc, the amount of crying from CS grads to mostly jr engineers is astounding to me. 1. Degree: Tell me one industry where they will pay you 150k out of undergrad with no master’s no PhD no MD. You will have your first child in your 30s by the time ...Read more
Hello, I currently work at Northrop Grumman 4.5 YoE making TC: 119K (98K Base, 15K Bonus, %6 401K match). I am looking for a 15% raise in my total compensation. I got an offer from TEKSystems as a contractor for Red Hat Consulting for 130K (converted 40 hrs/week) Salary. They said there are bonuse...Read more
Currently a T3 Swe in northrop grumman space park. My relationship with functional is actually great. However, not sure if i can consider my work to be fulfilling. To me, it is a job, nothing more. Besides, older companies like ngc does not treat developing engineers that well, at least compared to ...Read more
I have a few offers but I’m having trouble deciding based on a number of factors. I’m slightly older due to a previous career but have about 2-3YOE in software. Due to the career change I’ll be doing a fellowship before transitioning to full-time which is why many factors will be up in the air. But ...Read more
Blind wont let me post a google sheets link so here it is in raw format. It contains 95% of companies with more than 10 reviews. company ratings career growth wlb compensation culture management overall Formidable 12 4.7 5 4.3 4.9 4.6 4.7 Boston Scientific 38 3.6 4.9 3.5 4.2 3.8 4 Hudl 14 4.4 4.9 ...Read more