Good company to jump start your career - Financial Analyst SAIC Employee Review

3.0
May 5, 2009
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Pros

SAIC i s good company to start your career with, however i have noticed that if you stay with the company long enough you will get the management roles, as majority of the senior management in the company has been with SAIC for 10+ years. During interview i was told that if you stay with the company for first 4-5 years than most probably you are not going to leave. However if you are joining SAIC as a experineced, than make sure you are getting a good postion with good pay, because i have seen that there is a quite a bit difference in pay for people performing same job with same experince level.

Cons

I have not seen any downside with working at SAIC, however it feels to me that it is ok if you are working at the manager level, however just a regular employee you are not treated as well, and not paid as much.

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Cons

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2.0
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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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