SAIC reviews

You can be assigned a task that doesn't fit your abilities and you're stuck, complaining is futile. If you're more than competent, expect to stay at your oar, slave, because you aren't going anywhere; it's the incompetent that get to change jobs. It's too much like high school, the popular ones rise, everyone else is backdrop. No matter what a good worker you are, your SAIC manager does not have your back or stand up for you. Raises are miniscule. Again, your work performance in your job is nothing anyone's really paying much, or any attention to. The moment you make anyone else unhappy, expect prompt scolding about not being a team player.

When we went public, the atomosphere changed for the worse. No more bonuses or profit sharing for non-managers. Private to public stock conversion was nebulous and not even mathematicians could figure out. Raises are typically low whereas they used to be in accordance to performance and professional development. Even after finishing a master's degree. Only senior managers seem to benefit from being public. Morale is very bad, stock is stagnant. Business units and operations compete against each other. Managers are actually penalized financially if they use employees with needed expertise in other operations. Our operation has a distinct hierarchy, you are either in or out. Most people are out, but if you are one of the chosen few, you do well. Lots of good ol' boy network at work.