Company is going downhill...and it's not just the stock price - Anonymous employee SAIC Employee Review

2.0
Sep 13, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- High quality Employees - Interesting work - Promotes social responsibility and employee volunteerism - Flexible with respect to working hours

Cons

- Says "people first" but doesn't follow through - Insular management at higher levels, with a good deal of "do as I say..." - Obsession with making numbers is leading to ethical lapses at all levels of management. Paying lip service to ethics doesn't cut it...there is no follow through - Attempts to "realign" services has led to disastrous results for people in the line trying to do work for customers. - Sacrificed employee loyalty when IPO occurred....not the same company

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Pros

Decent learning and development opportunities. Some really passionate and hard working people on your teams. Performance management is relaxed and flexible.

Cons

Benefits are wildly expensive for a company of their size. Was laid off with 1.5 months notice right before Christmas. Months prior to layoff was forced to use my PTO due to gov shutdown, but was still getting my full paycheck during shutdown. I believe this was so that they could diminish our PTO banks so they would have to pay out less when they laid us off. Laid off with zero severance despite being at company for almost 4 years and being in good standing. No efforts from management to make connections for a new internal role despite being strongly encouraged to search internally. New CEO Jim is not personable at all. Gives heavy corporate and cog in a machine vibes. Rumor has it that in the defense contracting industry, SAIC will be faring rather poorly within next 1-4 years.

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