Senior Security Analyst | Software Engineer - Anonymous employee SAIC Employee Review

2.0
2 Sept 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Easy-going. Small-scale feel. A renewed focus in a shrinking DOD pool of contracts.

Cons

Benefits and PTO are a race to the bottom. "Competitive" is used over and over to justify their actions. Management usually pulled from government and not always the best fit for the position. Degradation of intelligence as contract wears on.

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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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