Good Company, not so good department - Anonymous employee SAIC Employee Review

3.0
Mar 16, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The overall company is great. SAIC is in a lot of areas of industry and offer some great opportunities. They have a few groups you can join like the women's group, veteran's group and junior group. The pay was not bad, and my teammates for the most part were very hard working and intelligent individuals.

Cons

Pay is not bad, but other companies in the area pay around $10k more for the same position. My particular team had poor management that bordered the line of having bullies as leads/manager. The specific types of bullying were the more subtle types of the constant critic and gossiper which are harder to recognize. Three prior teammates left the company due to the same issues. I tried to find a means to report it and documented it, but HR was not really onsite and I could not find a good source to speak to. When I resigned and emailed HR to request an exit interview, there was no response. I had difficulty trying to switch departments, so ultimately I just left the company. If I had switched departments I would have stayed, because I truly believe as a whole it is a decent company.

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Cons

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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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