CACI International reviews

Technology tools are way behind. For example I work from home office and my CACI supplied laptop does not even have MS Office loaded on it. CACI's advice is to use either your personal PC or the CACI supplied iPhone. OK. . . here is a question for all the CACI MBAs. . . how can we update Excel spreadsheets containing 100 lines of data on my iPhone? Many off their processes are tedious compared to the competitors. For a company that provides IT professionals in so many government contracts, their in house IT is surprisingly archaic. Vesting for the 401K is 3 years. I am not planning on staying 3 years so I am not participating. HR here is incompetent. For example, I have seen them double withhold state income tax from multiple states where the employee did not live or work. They input women as men, and men as women for benefits. They input your address for benefits in a state you have never lived in and it takes 5 weeks to sort out such a minor detail, but it prevents you from using your medical and dental coverage. Also job offers for certain hourly rate went out that include and health and welfare benefit of $4.00, not as the customary practice to have the hourly rate plus H&W listed. So many were surprised to see their first paycheck short. Classic used car saleman trick! But they signed it! Management obsesses about timecards which have more data fields than any other company I have ever seen. No surprise when folks fat finger the input, or when HR does not have the proper codes authorized for you to use and you can't save the timecard. Result is everyone on your team has the same timecard problem, leading to . . . Management is totally reactive to issues. Only when every single member of the team has a question or problem will they finally communicate to all what to do. This plays out almost every single day and you can predict how they will handle it, which does nothing but frustrate the employees and wastes the junior managements time. The response is almost always a total surprise that this problem has occurred followed by scrambling and drop everything to correct it.

When I applied and when I wrote this review, the CACI website shows in their landing page that background investigator jobs are for those looking for "work/life balance" and "flexible hours" - It was also touted this way on in the description where you apply for the job. I asked about how this works in the job interview and during training. I was told that you can work 12 hours one day and then 6 hours the next if you wish, just get your 40 hours in each week and get the job done. From what I hear from other investigators, this is true, except if you live in California. In order to comply with California's rules of treating hourly workers fairly as far as breaks and compensating for overtime, you have to work 8 hour days with little flexibility. To actually complete the intense workload of cases they give, I would have had to basically lie on my timecard to comply with the impossible combination of other people's availability for interviews, the strict California laws, and CACI's emphasis on hitting your "numbers" or metrics for quantity and quality. In any other state, the hours appear to be truly flexible, but the workload is still not in line with the pay. I left because I refused to be placed in that impossible situation and live in fear of any leg of that precarious stool from falling out from under me. The computer/technology provided for the job is quite antiquated. IT issues plagued training and also cause lost hours of productive time.