It was a great experience but I miss the Old SAIC - when it was Employee-owned. - Manager SAIC Employee Review

4.0
Jan 26, 2011
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Pros

Flexibility to work at home use to be something you earned. Someone who earned the trust of the employer. This past year flexibility went haywire, employee work schedule is unpredictable, flexibility is over the top. ( A nightmare for a manager to keep track of timecards) but employees really seem to love it.

Cons

Appears lay offs are targeted at employees due to their age not their experience. SAIC replacing employees who were laid off before they're even out the door. Need to allow employees to evaluate managers not just vice versa. When SAIC was an employee-owned company it was an Awesome place to work. Founder of the company was fair across the board. Miss the old SAIC structure SAIC is definately not the same after it went public.

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5.0
May 11, 2026
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Pros

The SAIC management on my contract are excellent.

Cons

After completing my first years, I have no complaints. My SAIC experience has been everything that I had hoped.

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2.0
Jun 30, 2026
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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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