All about billable hours - don't care if it is interesting work - Anonymous employee SAIC Employee Review

2.0
Feb 8, 2011
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Stable - never felt that my job was at risk though this depends on the pipeline of contracts for your particular division, very good work/life balance

Cons

All about being billable, no clear career path, managers manage tasks not employees - I've never got the impression that my manager cares about whether I feel challenged or my professional growth, as long as I bring in the fee, its all good. Tendency to replace mid and mid to senior employees with junior staff. Real military good old boy culture which makes it tough if you are not ex-military.

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5.0
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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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