SPARC Reviews
Updated Apr 1, 2022
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Top Review Highlights by Sentiment
- "Relaxed fun work environment, senior leadership that actually cares about their people." (in 6 reviews)
- "SPARC has definitely experienced growing pains and at times communication could have been better." (in 4 reviews)
- Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Best work experience of my career!
Cons
The commute on Clements Ferry.
- Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Culture, people, Fun. innovative, and challenging
Cons
pay, focus time, direction, and management
- Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
Great leaders & Work/Life balance.
Cons
The most complicated intercompany transactions system.
- Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
- Paycheck - I can't even come up with the 5 word minimum!
Cons
- This place is daycare for all the hipster dorks living in the Charleston area - Only a few lame & boring projects to work on - Almost exclusively government projects - Annoying wannabe Silicon Valley "culture" - Have to do bait & switch to get you to work there - Managers will lie to you - Lots of people screwing around all day - Not the place to stay current or advance your tech skills
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
- People were always helpful and nice - Great work life balance, always understood when you needed to have a half day for personal reasons - Senior software engineers were willing to teach and have learning sessions - Good salaries for Charleston SC
Cons
- Part of Booz-Allen Hamilton now and the large company bureaucracy happened
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Amazing atmosphere Friendly people Great work and home balance
Cons
Below market salary Owned by government contracts No growth opportunity No annual bonus Annual salary raise does not correspond with performance No guarantee of salary increase with position movement
Continue reading - Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great Experience, learned a lot.
Cons
Communication within organization is difficult sometimes,
- Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
Great culture, some interesting projects and amazing people. Yes, it's different since the buyout but greater Booz Allen has pretty much kept out of our hair. A name is just a name! From reading other posts about Senior MGMT not doing their job makes me scratch my head. I've never seen anyones voice not heard or concern addressed, perhaps there's other things to those reviews.
Cons
VBMS is boring, some of the newer hires aren't the "rockstars " they claim to be.
Continue reading - Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great atmosphere fun projects and new building
Cons
The purchase by Booz Allen Changed Management style in some departments
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
It was one of the best places to work when it existed.
Cons
The work wasn't always the most exciting back in the day.
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SPARC Reviews FAQs
SPARC has an overall rating of 3.8 out of 5, based on over 65 reviews left anonymously by employees. 69% of employees would recommend working at SPARC to a friend and 64% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.
69% of SPARC employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated SPARC 4.2 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.9 for culture and values and 3.5 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at SPARC to be career development, benefits, culture and the cons to be management, senior leadership, compensation.
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