Lesson learned from working at SAIC - Anonymous employee SAIC Employee Review

3.0
Dec 6, 2008
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

SAIC provides great opportunity for individuals who are knowledge able and skilled to have a variety of possible job arenas. They have awesome benefits due to draw of skilled workers which results in a higher professionalism and contract bid.

Cons

You can get pigeoned into a area and not have the opportunity to expand and grow. Due to how the company has been reformed you can be separated from your division and personal you work with, this results in alienation, lack of supervisor knowing what you are doing on a daily basis, lack of recognition and leadership support for individuals. There is also a "boy club" attitude, in which if you are not considered a member of that club or clique then you lack an equal opportunity at times for recognition and also support when needed.

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5.0
Jul 1, 2026
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Pros

-Love the contract -People are great to work with -Very flexible with times -If had a very long day, can lessen time to work less later in week

Cons

-Sometimes you gotta work a long freaking day -Have to be ready to get called to go to base at like 1 am

2.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
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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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