SAIC - Anonymous employee SAIC Employee Review

4.0
Jul 30, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pros are; -Excellent pay -Great flexibility -Good training / academic benefits -Good healt benefits -They will find a place for you should the contract end -Good work/life balance

Cons

-There is no definitive path for advancement, you have to eat what you kill -Many of the contracts are long standing and once you become an integral part of one its hard to get out / get on another project -Much of the senior management has no experience working anywhere but SAIC

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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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