SAIC Technical Writing and Sustainment Engineering Set You up for failure - Technical Writer SAIC Employee Review

1.0
Dec 23, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

They will hire you quickly for the position.

Cons

They do not train you, just give you a template to match to without talking through it. You literally look at word documents all day and do not use your brain at all. The whole place is buddy buddy and they won't treat you like a teammate. There is no actual technical writing, it is only adjusting styles, formats, headers, footers, and table of contents. If someone in your department takes a holiday off, you cannot not use any time off.

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