Not a bad place to be as long as you understand and don't mind the drawbacks - Systems Engineer SAIC Employee Review

3.0
Oct 18, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Big company with interests in many industries, technologies or specialties so there is something for everyone. Pretty good work-life balance here.

Cons

Extremely big company that is very loosely organized, operating like a roll-up of many medium-sized businesses. SAIC, as a huge contractor, means that your job satisfaction depends very much on the customer you work for. Hard to feel really tied to the company compared to the customer you see and work with everyday. Feels like an in-between place to be where you're not really super invested in SAIC but not really a full member of your customer's organization either.

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5.0
Jun 3, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Exciting work load that is consistently evolving.

Cons

work hour flexibility is limited to a two week period.

2.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent learning and development opportunities. Some really passionate and hard working people on your teams. Performance management is relaxed and flexible.

Cons

Benefits are wildly expensive for a company of their size. Was laid off with 1.5 months notice right before Christmas. Months prior to layoff was forced to use my PTO due to gov shutdown, but was still getting my full paycheck during shutdown. I believe this was so that they could diminish our PTO banks so they would have to pay out less when they laid us off. Laid off with zero severance despite being at company for almost 4 years and being in good standing. No efforts from management to make connections for a new internal role despite being strongly encouraged to search internally. New CEO Jim is not personable at all. Gives heavy corporate and cog in a machine vibes. Rumor has it that in the defense contracting industry, SAIC will be faring rather poorly within next 1-4 years.

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