SAIC Reviews

Current Employee – been working at SAIC full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – SAIC is about making their customers happy. They strive to be the best in the industry and let their employees use innovation to reach this goal.

Cons – SAIC is in the process of splitting into 2 companies which is expected to happen in the Fall of 2013. While direct positions should not be affected there is currently a lot of changes to indirect employees which is making indirect positions very unstable and unattractive for the time being.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at SAIC full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Rate of Pay. Management and the people along with the many self service training programs created a wonderful experience for me personally. I would have stayed with SAIC for the rest of my Career could I have avoided the lay-off. I will miss working at SAIC.

Cons – SAIC just recently split causing a reduction in Labor Hours. Many people lost their job.
The Benefits Program also took a major hit.

Advice to Senior Management – Take a look into the lower ranks to get an overall picture of what it actually takes to run the many different programs.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at SAIC full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great technology and drive to succeed

Cons – Government Contracts are inconsitent and tough to get

Advice to Senior Management – recurring income

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at SAIC full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – SAIC has their hands in just about every type of contracting work, so there is great diversity when it comes to different jobs available.

Cons – Depending on your working location, SAIC does not treat all of it's employees fairly. The more you are detached from the corporate environment, the less respect you get from the company as a whole.

Advice to Senior Management – Consistency with off-site management, compared to corporate management, could steer this company in the right direction and show employees that the company cares about them as an individual.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at SAIC full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – - Diverse portfolio
- Location
- Some friendly people

Cons – - Leadership at all levels is not honest with the employees.
- Lack of clear or consistent vision.
- Managers give lip service to programs but only watch cost & how it raises their status.
- Planned split is causing many of the best performers and minds to leave.
- Wild West atmosphere internally where no one talks to each other and competes for same work.
- Redundant overhead is pervasive. Meetings to have meetings about a meeting is a waste.

Advice to Senior Management – 1) Don't tell your employees that the planned split is subject to stockholder approval when the "vote" is to be after all steps have been taken and companies will be essentially operating independently already. One high level manager said, "Even if the vote is no, it will be YES."

2) Don't lay off quality & experienced people and replace them with those with ZERO experience in the field just to save a few dollars. It will cost you more in the long run when you have to recover, and it places the company below industry standard.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SAIC full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Higher than average salary for the area

Cons – Lack of proactive management and career development opportunites

Advice to Senior Management – Give more recognition to those who actually produce for the company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at SAIC full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Smart people, some great leaders, good contracts. Good benefits, nice facilities and opportunities to advance if you're willing to crush other people to do it.

Cons – Politics and a legacy culture based on cutthroat competition and an attitude of 'get ahead at any cost.' Too much emphasis on 'do as I say, not as I do' from a few top managers. Very little loyalty from senior management to long-term, mid-level employees. The Board is more interested in feathering their own nest than taking care of the company and its people.

Advice to Senior Management – Lead by example. Trust your subordinates. You've hired people for their subject matter expertise; use it. Have some loyalty to those employees who have put their entire lives into SAIC. Don't just toss them aside after 35+ years with the company...that kind of lead-pipe capitalism is ultimately self-defeating.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at SAIC full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Up to the recent past, a company with a relatively stable past. Large corporation with the standard suite of benefits offered to employees. Part of the massive military industrial complex that represents a large portion of the private sector in the Northern Virginia area.

Cons – The entrepreneurial spirit is a thing of the past. What once was a horizontal organization with each program manager more or less in charge of his/her "piece of the pie", has now been reduced to a very vertical structure with activities such as HR, procurement, contracts, security, etc placed under the corporate umbrella and forced to operate in a "one size fits all" functionality regardless of the contracts it supports or the particular situation it encounters. In addition, the company has been in the process of dividing itself into two separate entities (SAIC and Leidos) since August 2012, with all of the difficulties encountered in doing that with some 40K employees.

Advice to Senior Management – With the formation of the two separate companies, make up your mind as to what SAIC and Leidos will finally be when they both grow up, and then pursue your business opportunities aggressively and realistically under the continued reality of the LPTA world. Good luck with that.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SAIC full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – SAIC was the best company to work for until all the layoffs.

Cons – I was employed there for many, many years and they no longer take care of the employees who helped build the company into what it is today. They get rid of them. Very sad. Oh, and once you're out....good luck finding another job inside the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Care more about the employees who made the company what it is today.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SAIC full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – My manager allowed us to work from home. Good work-life balance. Paychecks never bounced. When it was employee owned it was great!

Cons – Stressful work environment; spent too much time proving our dept's value vs doing the real work that needed to be done.

Advice to Senior Management – Ask lower level employees to review their managers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company