SRA International reviews

Management glosses over the truth, which has the impact of coming across as lying most of the time. Focus has gone from being a company that focuses on execution to a company that does proposals. Small group of people at headquarters do all of this, and they ignore everything else that is happening.

Gone are the days of Ernst Volgenau and Renny DiPentima at the helm, when SRA was growing, profitable, took care of its employees of all levels and tenures, and most importantly, had a bright future. A few tumultuous years under Stan Sloane were followed by a disastrous private acquisition and the installation of Bill Balhous as CEO, who inspires very little loyalty and "warm and fuzzies," except with maybe a select few upper echelon executives who have found space under his wing. The money has dried up, both for the business and for the employees (who get to hear about "Best in Breed" performance review practices that ensure only the single highest performer on a given team receives a cost-of-living wage increase). Benefits have been whittled back to nothing resembling industry-competitive, career growth is limited by managements' seemingly single-minded instinct to source first from outside rather than promote from within, facilities and space has been sold off, leased out, and parceled up, and the fun team-centric working atmosphere that defined the heyday and attracted top talent has been replaced by hollow promises that everything's still the same.