Stable Job, Corporate Stagnation - Senior Software Engineer ICF Employee Review

They use MS Teams and think the Microsoft business suite is The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread, and assimilate companies they acquire towards it. The size of the company makes it very difficult to feel connected to anything beyond just the group you work with directly, and makes senior executives feel unapproachable. CIT is sometimes slow, and sometimes gets in the way of technical staff. Benefits are lacking considering the size of the company, and pay is on the lower end (though this is a trade off for the stability of working for a federal contractor). The business units are largely comprised of the remnants of companies ICF has acquired, and are incredibly siloed. ICF’s growth model seems to focus more on acquiring profitable companies and milking their profits than focusing on streamlining their own internal processes, and because they are publicly owned, there is an inherent push to drive up shareholder value. The timekeeping software is a nightmare. I have repeatedly gotten the vibe from people more central to ICF as a corporation that they resent remote employees. Compensation adjustments are determined by an external team, rather than anyone who actually knows what you do or how hard you do (or don’t) work. PTO offering is quite poor compared to other tech employers. ICF also doesn’t do anything to work on group cohesion, and pinches pennies very hard for any sort of team building exercises.