Terrible company, no focus, horrible management... - Program Manager SAIC Employee Review

1.0
Oct 16, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

If having a job is your standard of a pro than that's the only pro I can assign to SAIC.

Cons

Let's see, we spent millions as a company moving everything to a Share Services model (think Help Desk for HR), the stock price has plummeted just within the last year from $18/share down to just $10/share and sinking, we just got sued by NYC for because management wasn't providing enough oversight, the CEO got approval to split the company instead of buying back the stock and making it employee owned again, they just recently announced that they eliminating ALL health care plans and just keeping catastrophic health plans. Their marketing of the new plans as they put it is "giving us more control over our healthcare." when in fact it's just a cost cutting measure.

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5.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-Love the contract -People are great to work with -Very flexible with times -If had a very long day, can lessen time to work less later in week

Cons

-Sometimes you gotta work a long freaking day -Have to be ready to get called to go to base at like 1 am

2.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
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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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