Large federal defense contractor with high employee turnover at the defense client level. - Communications Analyst SAIC Employee Review

2.0
Oct 23, 2019
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Pros

Fair benefits that are comparable with other federal defense contractors of their size.

Cons

Employee hiring practices at the client level are suspect. Seasoned, educated, knowledgeable, and highly experienced individuals are expected to perform the workloads of two to three members due to management incompetencies in hiring and promotion biases. Nepotism, hiring, and promoting friends without the correct experience levels, education, knowledge, skills, abilities, and certifications to competently perform basic expected work tasks. These management and hiring practices have caused seasoned knowledgeable professionals to leave contracts. These practices have depleted working relationships between the government client and the SAIC contract. The local HR and management teams have succeeded in removing diversity in leadership and management roles from the contract. Diverse members are being replaced with incompetent, less qualified, no experience members who verbosely don't have a clue about the job they are hired into or anything of value to the mission. The outlook is bleak. It is a sad case of the blind leading the blind.

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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
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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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