SAIC reviews

Senior Management is often grossly out of touch with employee morale as well as how to effectively manage employees and their interrelationships. Employees often have to fend for themselves and form cliques in order to survive and advance. Thus advancement is often a function of popularity vs. job performance. Employees are often treated as functional cogs in a machine instead of people. Senior management is often hired out of the officer corp of the military and have little knowledge or understanding of the corporate world and of skills based jobs (vs. managerial jobs). Opportunities to move into the management ranks are most often limited to those employees who were prior officers even when other, more qualified candidates exist. This creates a "para-military" mindset in the company that is at best ignorant of the employees and at worst destructive and cancerous within the employee ranks.

SAIC is a very scattered company - it's divisions are co-located with clients. While this affords a nimbler response to clients, it complicates the day-to-day management issues. Sometimes it can seem like upper management is out of touch with the workers in the trenches. Now that SAIC (NYSE: SAI) stock is publicly it is harder to get bonuses of stock and options. Trading the stock through Mellon can be time consuming, but must be done to maintain the employee benefit of 10 votes per share (Class A?), if an employee wants to move the stock to his/her own broker, the preferential voting rights are lost.