WORST experience of any employer in over 20 years (including the Army!!) - Cloud Architect SAIC Employee Review

1.0
Feb 8, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Pays well, and has lots of resources. My first and second level supervisors were fantastic, the work was interesting, and my colleagues were pleasurable and competent.

Cons

SAIC is led by partisan hacks mindlessly committed to woke capitalism. My local management was stellar, but the corporate mindset is unilaterally driven by a desire to pander to the left in an attempt to line the pockets of the C-Suite. The company was an early and rigid adopter of vax mandates, and forced me to look for another job by arbitrarily and forcefully denying my request for accommodation. After I found another job, the company insisted that my departure was "voluntary" (while still withholding accommodation) and used this obvious lie as justification to extort me for "repayment" of signing bonus and education benefits. Leaving this company and decoupling myself from a management team that views their prime duty as advancing progressive (and obviously ineffective) politics is the best professional decision I have ever made. It's costing me a lot of money for them to deny my conscience, but you can't pay me enough to stay with this morally bankrupt organization. If you're looking for a company that plays corporate games with you and your dependents, addresses their retention issues through coercion, jettisons all pretense of practicality in decision making, abandons any attempt to avoid political activism, and arbitrarily and capriciously uses policy to obscure the glaring incompetence of their executive "leadership", then SAIC is the company for you!

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