Good company, but losing its edge - Communications SAIC Employee Review

3.0
Jun 23, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

It was a good company with great benefits and opportunities when I started, but things changed after they went public as the case is with most companies.

Cons

They have become too technical and management at my location became narrow minded and less focused. Not as strategic as they need to be about winning new work. They tend to promote people who are willing to take on more work regardless of whether it is a good fit or if the person has the proper skills and there is little training support once that person is in the new job. It depends on location but I also felt this company, at my location and within senior management did not promote women as much as some other contractors. It often became a good old boys club.

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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
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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