SAIC Reviews in Houston, TX Area

Pros

- Respect is shown to each individual
- Very ethical and professional atmosphere
- Managers are accesible
- Promotes continuing education
- Competitive salaries
- Overall competitive benefits

Cons

- Your position will only last as long as the SAIC contract lasts with its customer (can be months or it can be years)
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Advice to Senior Management

- none

Pros

Had a contract that I was on.

Cons

No bench. If you were not on a contract, you were in danger of losing your job.

Advice to Senior Management

You need to talk to your people and get feedback from them before you get more into the government business.

Pros

Benefits and salary are competitive.
Online training resources.
Supportive mgmt team.

Cons

If you are not government, you get forgotten by corporate.

Pros

Great benefits
Decent salary
Work/Life balance is good

Cons

Uncertain future continuing to remain a SAIC employee makes staff look for opportunities outside the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Lack of commetment from upper management to grow commerical business.

Pros

You have an opportunity to work with good people, and the clients are all Fortune 500 or better. There are many areas to work, be it government, NASA, various industries.

Cons

You really need to look after your own career, as no one is going to do it for you. Middle management are often only looking after their own careers.

Advice to Senior Management

You won't be doing a great service to the company if all you are doing is looking after your own career.

Pros

One of the best reasons to work at SAIC is for the opportunity to collaborate and learn from some very bright scientists and engineers. SAIC has a very good base of very smart people. SAIC usually has business in its sales pipeline within its federal and commercial sector opportunity.

One of the best reasons to work at SAIC is for the opportunity to collaborate and learn from some very bright scientists and engineers. SAIC has a very good base of very smart people. SAIC usually has business in its sales pipeline within its federal and commercial sector opportunity. Sorry, this is all I have time to write.

Cons

Most of the time you will start your career here working well over forty hours work weeks. While doing this, you will only be paid for a normal work week. You will be used for your expertise until the project is completed. Then, you will either be transitioned to a support role, thrown on another project, or placed on internal work via a bench until you are told to leave the company. All of this would have been avoided has the sales folks actually closed more sales instead of generating a bunch of activity with little to no results. The sales pipeline has problems closing leaving delivery scrambling for the next gig.

Advice to Senior Management

Do more to compete for projects, do not be satisfied with simple staff augmentation, market our abilities more, create more commercial industry solutions...not just settle for being a body shop, evaluate sales personnel who aren't closing and retrain.

Pros

good benefits - the health benefits are ok when comprared to other companies.
flexible hours allow employee to leave to run errands if needed or work from home a few hours if needed.
good work envirownment - other co-workers are great to work with.
Collaboration on work projects is good and communication with management above onoing projects is great

Cons

unfair pay raise, no bonuses, little recognition. There is no opportunity for career advancement. Very little feedback on how employee is performing and no raises according to performance.

Advice to Senior Management

pay employees more money based upon their performance. treat subcontractors as they would their employees.

Pros

Opportunities to work on a variety of projects and often for a variety of clients. If you are really extroverted and can sell yourself and others, you can move into management opportunities fairly quickly. The commercial business side is growing and provides employees a great opportunity to participate in a growth sector of the corporation.

Cons

Sick days and vacation days or any time off such as for Dr. visits are lumped into a "bank" called Comprehensive Leave. Together the annual number of days provided is a bit less than other companies that provide separate vacation and sick days "banks".

Advice to Senior Management

Growth on the commercial business side appears to be fettered with business processes optimized for the governtment side. Give the commercial business side additional independence to build business processes optimized for commercial clients. Growing the commercial business side means competing for the best talent in the marketplace. The compensation package, including benefits needs to be more competitive, for example with vacation time.

Pros

Flexible hours if needed. SAIC does care for it's employees. Great communication with employees as well for information reguarding the company. Lots of oppertunities to move around in the company if you dislike your current position. In the past 4 years I've worked here, SAIC has finally started listening to employees. Great new program dedicated to finding other positions within the company if a contract is lost to retain employees

Cons

Career and Personnal growth aren't always top priority, however SAIC is trying to change this.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep working on ways to improve career and personal growth, as a 20 something engineer, I struggle to see where the company would like me to be in the future. However it's been starting to change and if you work at it, you would be alot better in my book.

Pros

Great community of professionals to work with. The SAIC University offers a incredibly vast selection of classes that employees can take at their leisure to expand or enhance their skills. This will allow motivated employees to learn the skills necessary to move around with in the com pany and try new jobs if they are ready for a change. Hard work is definitely rewarded, but likewise, only doing what you "have" to do will not get you where you want to go.

Cons

The portion of your benefits that the company pays could be hiring for a 50k company. I'm not sure all of their benefits are as progressive as other Fortune 500 companies.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep developing good employee retention plans.