Software Engineer - Software Engineer SAIC Employee Review

3.0
Dec 14, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay and decent benefits. If you want stability, this is the company for you. You'll be doing government contracting, which is often very laid-back. It is very easy to blend into the background here.

Cons

It's very easy to wind up on a terrible project. If you aren't careful, you will quickly find yourself stagnating as a developer. All of the new people that come to my project are desperate new college graduates without other options. To be fair though, that's what I was when I got here. They seem to have a hard time holding on to good mid-level talent. Company culture is non-existent since most of the time you'll be working at a customer site (a government facility). There will be other SAIC employees there, but it's still a government facility and you'll be a government employee in all but name. These downsides aren't specific to SAIC, but are typical of the downsides generally found in defense contracting. SAIC is a defense contractor though, so most of them apply. Bottom line: If you don't want just ANY job, then seriously consider the points above.

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Cons

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2.0
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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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