SRA International Reviews

Pros

In general a good, clean respectful place to work.

Cons

Senior leadership can be blinded by personal loyalties and follow money losing strategies simply to protect unqualified leaders. M&A is not their strong point, and the International in the name is a cruel joke. This is not a global company, not even international.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior leadership does not have a vision of where it wants to take the company. Growth in itself is not a goal or target. They need to get back to the basics.

Pros

The company that I worked for was bought by SRA International and I assume they are still developing emmisions tracking systems for the EPA. I was proud that I was part of a company that cared so much about the environment.

Cons

The politics of the immediate managers that I worked with left a lot to be desired. They were petty, vindictive and childish.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't work in the financial management division in Charlottesville if at all possible. You can never win.

Pros

Great benefits, pay, job and company to work for. Always looking to grow the business and hire new talent. I love working for a company that is growing because it offers great opportunities to employees. They also have a great education program.

Cons

Although the 401k plan is good it could be better. Would like to see a larger match to the contributions made by employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Less emphasis should be put on profit margins and more money passed along to the employees that make the company so great. Give back to the employees by way of their pay, bonuses, and 401k. Otherwise, they will move to the companies that are making better offers in those areas.

Pros

People are awesome for the most part, everything you like or dislike about the company is on a project by project basis.

Cons

Transferring projects can leave an employee feeling lost as HR doesn't a very poor job of position placement

Pros

Big company, great benefits. IF you are in the NOVA area, the opportunities for project work is good.

Cons

Management not communicative. Dysfunctional team leadership at the directorial and executive levels.

Pros

Has been listed as one of the top companies to work for - there are a lot of opportunities in the IT field.

Cons

It is quite obvious that the company is going through growing pains (moving from a small company to mid company).

Advice to Senior Management

Make the work environment more fun; increase focus on career development; stop being so bottom line oriented. Have more fun!

Pros

great benefits, flexible, casual culture

Cons

focus on billability, profitability - often at the expense of common sense

Pros

The job involves recruiting scientists to panel sessions (known as study sections) to review grant applications submitted by their peers. As an SRO, if you manage panels that are in your field, you have the opportunity to learn from the submitted grants as well as get a first had feel for what the prevailing thoughts are in the field by the experts on the panel.

Cons

This segment of the company is involved in reviewing grant applications received by CDMRP. Each SRO is paid by the number of summaries s/he writes. Therefore it is beneficial for the SRO to ensure fewer grants are "triaged" because they don't get paid well for the ones that don't make the cut. As a result, there is not uniformity of fairness across the study sections. This is really terrible for the people sending in the applications.

Pros

good benefits, pro work life balance at corporate offices

Cons

outside of the corporate offices you are lost in the shuffle.

Pros

compensation, benefits
competent peers, friendly, cooperative
flex hours, work life balance maintained
clean work space, free parking, new equipment available

Cons

no telecom
mix messages from admin
ongoing conflicts with clients
unclear parameters
lack of direction
too many meetings, not sufficient access to product

Advice to Senior Management

communicate directly and honestly with employees, don't go through low level project manager, don't hide in meetings and behind emails.