CACI International reviews

3.8

67% would recommend to a friend

(3,778 total reviews)
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John S. Mengucci

73% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

CACI International has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 3,778 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CACI International employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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3.0
May 8, 2016
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Pros

Decent pay for a recent grad and as an entry level employee (specially one that's contracted to the DOJ) you definitely gain good experience in the legal field.

Cons

There's no movement up/promotions available, which means no matter what or how long you stay, you are stuck with the same salary. The only bonus they offer is a small holiday bonus and there are no sick days. You get a decent # of vacation days (10 total), however, you have to accrue the vacation time - aka, every pay period you get ~4 hours of vacation time and you cannot use any vacation time before you acrue it. i.e. If you want to take off two days for vacation, but only have one day's worth of vacation time accrued, you cannot use the time you're expecting to acrue next month towards the aforementioned vacation- only the time you have thus far. Rarely interact with you CACI supervisor - they often have too many people to oversee to actually keep in touch on a somewhat regular basis and therefore become quite obsolete. For DOJ contractors, there is no flexibility in working from home - no matter what they will not pay you for it bc it's not included in their contact with the government. Also high turn over rate bc of the pay and vacation/sick days limitations.

2.0
Nov 29, 2015
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Pros

Excellent work environment with fellow CACI employees, albeit on a job site (Defense Intelligence Agency, Office for Counterintelligence, Russell-Knox Bldg., Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia) that was palpably hostile to our very presence (and I was so warned by my new CACI colleagues on day one). Six months later, appropo of nothing in particular, DIA cashiered me without warning, after returning home on a Firday night. No right of appeal, no reason, no explanation. I was later told by CACI management that my superior expertise in the topical subject matter "scared" and threatened the mid-level (GG-14) management at OCI-2 (Counterespionage Division) where I was assigned. In addition, I was later advised by CACI that their written DIA OCI notice to CACI said I had been repeatedly counseled about different excesses of which I had purportedly been guilty, and that I flagrantly disregarded the warnings until it reached a point they had no choice but to fire me. This account, which I was not permitted by CACI to either read first-hand, much less rebut, was frankly lies by DIA OCI from top to bottom. There had never occurred any counselings, negative or otherwise, no warnings or disciplinary action of any kind. The DIA-OCI indictment of me was simply a willfully falsified U.S. Government document aimed at justifying their otherwise unjustifiable action. At root, the brewing scandal was, I believe, that we CACI seniors (retired senior GG-15 and SES of an average 28-32 years federal Intelligence Community experience each) were all relegated to clerical tasks by the OCI-2 management for reasons unknown. Our respective job descriptions (JD), each detailing substantive duties assigned by DIA-OCI, were simply lies. Completely false statements except for usually one line at the end that committed us to the full-time clerical hell of "maintaining databases, inputting data." To the extent that they were paying us the top rate of $105,000 each on an annual basis might be, should be the focus of a DCAA (Defense Contract Audit Agency) inquiry.

Cons

The CACI motto is that "we don't hire for a job, we hire for a career." This is an outright falsehood. I urge any applicants to not be deceived. They hire for the job, and perhaps this alone is fair enough - just do not get suckered in otherwise about the "career" bit. At best, adopting this corporate logo CACI commits to far more than it has any intent to deliver. CACI accepted the sudden, late Friday hour demand by DIA-OCI demand to remove me from the contract (i.e. fired) without question. I was advised by telephone call to my hotel residence that Friday night to not return to work on Monday, and turn in my badges the next day to a supervisor who would visit my hotel. I was, in short, summarily kicked to the curb without hesitation. So much for the CACI "career." In fairness, CACI signed me up to their "Alumni Program", had me working with a CACI recruiter to place me elsewhere in the organization for months afterwards without success. No success at placing me within CACI's huge organization, despite the many dozens of suitable CACI vacancies for which I applied via my own CACI Careers web site account (which the recruiter would automatically "see" upon my submitting the e-application). Today is the three-month date since I was let go, the recruiter has been silent for six weeks and counting, my applications to CACI vacancies continue unabated but are never answered. I get it. I am blacklisted. Recommend you, dear reader / would-be CACI applicant, not be the next "valued employee" to be unceremoniously booted & blacklisted while left wondering "why?"

3.0
Jun 3, 2015

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Anonymous employee
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Pros

Flexible, work from home

Cons

Micromanage, horrible pay for amount of work, terrible communication between management and field staff, lots of admin work, no opportunity to advance, constant change of expectations and job requirements

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