SAIC a good place to work if you don't mind the huge company environment - Systems Engineer SAIC Employee Review

3.0
Jan 21, 2009
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Pros

SAIC is a company that has interesting projects to work on. You have to work in one of the research groups and not the IT body shops. But if you get in a research group the projects aren't earth shattering but they are interesting with some challenging aspects. The company is generally very stable.

Cons

SAIC is just another big company. It used to be employee owned and it was better. Now its a just a 40K+ employee defense contractor like Lockheed or Boeing. Red tape is thick. Management is slow moving.

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5.0
Jun 3, 2026
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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
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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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