Pros
Your experience at Actionet will depend on the business unit you get a job with and your distance from the headquarters. Read all the reviews with a grain of salt because your location in the company will dictate your overall experience. Benefits are pretty good. The health insurance is actually one of the better plans that I have seen among Gov contractors; however, the company feels it is proprietary information - you may have to force them to send you the details by making it a contingency of acceptance of an offer. I was very happy with the benefits package. 401k could be better as you are not fully vested till 3 years while other companies are offering shorter or zero vesting terms. There are two parties each year for all employees funded by the CEO, plus you get a gift on Chinese New Year. All of which is very generous.
Cons
There has been a lot of turn over at the Senior VP level that indicates there are issues at the top of the company. This is further affirmed by rumors spoken that the CEO is a micromanager and creates a difficult work environment. The company was started by the CEO and it seems there is a lack of trust to delegate decisions. Internal tools for HR, travel, and appraisals are pretty horrible. Most of them are ancient applications from the 2000's. A lot of Actionet will cause you to take a step back and ask if this is really a company as some of the aspects of the company are comical. The all-hands meetings are painful to listen to or watch, everything is scripted. Might as well just email out the slides with the notes. There is favoritism among the business units that bring in the most money and that fact is very obvious. The downside is this favoritism also makes its way into team awards. Because of the the work Actionet performs, upward movement is rather hard. Most employees are billed on a contract which has restrictions. Yearly raises vary greatly depending on where you are in the company and what level you are at in the company. The appraisal cycle takes 1/4th of the year, yes - three months, to complete. Actionet has a lot of strange internal rules. One of them is in regards to supervisors and who is privy to certain employee information. Most supervisors in the company are glorified timecard keepers. A supervisor may not have insight into their own employees career, salary, or potential for advancement in compensation. Supervisors are put into an uncomfortable situation of not being able to discuss employee performance in appraisals and what it can mean for the employee. The outcome of appraisals are determined at the SVP level of the company.
