NOAA location - Help Desk Technician SAIC Employee Review

4.0
Mar 6, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Approachable Manager, 12 hour shifts three days one week and four days the second week, friendly co workers, opportunities to learn more, hands on experience working with Linux/Apple products/ Windows, website for training, 15 days of PTO when you work here 0-4 years on top of 2 floating holidays, can purchase more PTO days, company events

Cons

Need to find someone who can cover for your shift in order to take time off, possible overnight shift , only get a half hour break per shift and one hour break every two weeks ,

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5.0
Jun 6, 2026
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Pros

Good salary and benefits now

Cons

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2.0
Jun 30, 2026
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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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