SOSi reviews

3.2

52% would recommend to a friend

(241 total reviews)
avatar

Julian Setian

53% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

SOSi has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 241 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SOSi employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

Reviews by job title

241 reviews
1.0
Jun 10, 2015

Run

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The only pros I can think of is how strong the poor souls still at SOSI are. Their dedication and optimism knows no bounds.

Cons

Management is stuffy and has a complete disrespect for anyone directly below them or further down the totem pole - which is very unbecoming of a small company. HR has a complete disregard for employee safety and continually brushes off any advice given to them concerning management, employee concerns, etc. Completely unprepared for a DCAA audit. Complete disregard for employee work life balance. Executive management ignores cases of fraud and noncompliance. Continually losing contracts because they don't bill, cases of embezzlement, or just complete disregard for the customer. Management refuses to reward hardworking employees and then have the gull to act surprised and offended when they chose to leave the company. Incredible turnover. In one case, 5 people quit in 1 week.

4.0
Mar 10, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Corporate mindset: SOSi believes it can compete in any field, and the executive leadership pushes you to think outside of your comfort zone. Benefits: Solid medical plan, reasonable cost. Immediate vesting of assets contributed to the 401K plan, though the match is on the low side (but reasonable for the company size). Work/Life Balance: Reasonable expectation of working from home or on weekends only when truly required, i.e. the final week of a proposal submittal.

Cons

Corporate mindset: The company believes they can compete with any competitor on any pursuit (if you write it and cost it well, you will make the competitive range and get to pre-award surveys) in any of the GovCon industry sectors, regardless of relevant experience and past performance. BD Strategy: The company mindset mentioned above leads to throwing BD resources at many opportunities with very low P-Wins. SOSi tends towards quantity of opportunities, both active and pipeline, rather than selective targeting of the right opportunities. While some of this is explainable due to the company's desire to diversify away from its core offerings of language services, strategic communications, and intel/law enforcement training and analysis, it plays hell with staff morale as you end up spending considerable effort with no meaningful chance of reward. Corporate Infrastructure, Processes and Procedures (to support BD/proposals): Lacking. 1. Cost Estimating-No relatively standard cost estimating templates exist-a new one is conjured up from thin air seemingly with every new pursuit. It would be helpful, and conserve precious time on the proposal countdown clock, if templates were available for program staff/SMEs to use immediately upon RFP release. Such standardization would also contribute to the development of a corporate cost estimating system, which leads to more truth and less embellishment during the proposal build. 2. Safety & Quality Assurance/Control: Each pursuit ends up with its own unique version of a safety and quality plan. Great, but having no approved corporate safety and quality plan to draw from hinders the process as well, and increases the amount of time spent on such things.

1.0
Apr 2, 2016

Awful and unorganized

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Location is great and office is OK

Cons

Totally unorganized and has no regard for how to treat employees.

Viewing 25 - 27 of 241 Reviews

Glassdoor has 324 SOSi reviews submitted anonymously by SOSi employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if SOSi is right for you.