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Tumultuous World of Government Contracts - Risk Manager Systems Made Simple Employee Review

4.0
9 Oct 2015
Recommend
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Pros

I honestly think SMS is trying to take care of their employees. They communicate with them and try to provide training and promotion opportunities. The market of government contracts is volatile. Having unexpected things happen to contracts is not unique to SMS. I think the merge with Lockheed Martin was a good move for stability going forward.

Cons

However, I think SMS could be better at the political game. They seem to be blindsided by not winning or losing contracts more than they should. I don't know if there are problems with other contracts I was not a part that affect other projects or not. The quality of your work experience seems to be determined by who is the Project Manager. There is a wide range of experience and management styles in the PMs. It would be good to see that more consistent project to project.

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5.0
9 Aug 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Everyone was so nice and friendly who worked there

Cons

Don't have any cons

1.0
18 Dec 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You get paid on a regular basis

Cons

I am amazed at some of these reviews that report on this company’s positives. Seems most of these are from permanent employees. NOTE: the bulk of people who have, or are currently working for this company are subcontractors, who work on the ‘promise’ of being offered a permanent, System Made Simple® job. And that is the rub: many of us working on a specific project had the ‘rug pulled out from us’ when after five months into our six month temporary contract tenure we were told “Guess what? You are not going to be offered any permanent employment.” What does this really mean about the company? This is one example of just how unethical these people are. As for the work; the bulk of the staff sat around doing very little; there were actual employees who would Web-surf and/or watch movies all day long, with nothing really to do. Systems Made Simple® didn’t mind this: as long as these people were generating revenue (billing the client, at taxpayers’ expense) they didn’t care WHAT you did for 8 hours every work day. I can only wonder at how Systems Made Simple® gets away with this. Or how the company doesn’t have any sense of remorse at what they do (and what they do NOT do). But I figure the management (who nearly all of us on the project never saw or communicated with) have no conscience; and with no conscience, no sense of guilt in screwing over contractors and ripping off government clients.

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