Still find it hard to believe - Anonymous employee SAIC Employee Review

2.0
Mar 4, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

When I started off at SAIC it was a tremendous company. The work was cutting edge and the management - for about 99% of the time - was tremendous and made me do my best work. To this day I still fondly remember the best of times with SAIC when it was an employee owned company, and I had an opportunity to work on some of the most interesting technical projects and learned skills that I never dreamed of when I graduated from college. And a lot of the employees and co-workers were some of the most interesting people.

Cons

When SAIC management voted out the founder of the company and replaced him with a hack from one of SAIC's competitors, then things started going down hill. The money that the board of directors threw at the employees was nothing more than a bribe. Then when the company split and my project went to Leidos that was the final straw because I was only an employee of Leidos for 2 1/2 weeks when I came back to SAIC and my nearly 30 years of service with SAIC before the split did not count for anything it was a tremendous disappointment. I left SAIC but recently I have applied to new jobs but the follow-up from recruiters has been just awful.

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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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