Great company to work for - super people. - Business Development Manager SAIC Employee Review

5.0
Sep 13, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

People are great and the biggest reason for working at SAIC. You walk in the door and everyone respects SAIC, but that is because the people are hard working and do great work.

Cons

Like with most companies in Northern Virginia the communte to and from work takes up much of your time. SAIC has offices all over the country but your job may not be that close to home and you may have to travel between numerous job locations / offices during a given day / week. But again, this is the same with many companies. The real con's I found with SAIC were, (1), they did not use a commercial CRM which is what I would have preferred, (2) they did not share all of their marketing information across the company, which I found quite unbelievable and self defeating, and (3), like many large companies, while not competing directly with another part of the company, the different divisions often did not work together to win programs (or worse).

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Pros

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Cons

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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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