Ok for a contract company - Senior Systems Integration Engineer SAIC Employee Review

2.0
May 23, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Large contract company, provides most benefits you'd receive at a 'salary/normal' job such as health, life, dental, vision, 401k matching. Pay is also reasonable but it's extremely hit or miss - you could sit next to and work with a person on your team that has the same title as you and you could have a 30k difference in pay between the two of you. Good work life balance, but not due to SAIC but due to the contracts they have - 40 hour work week is very nice.

Cons

Unwilling to pay for training, it's not a permanent job even though they consider it one, you are assigned to a contract and your pay is based on that contract, if you move to a new one your pay will be adjusted. Effectively no long term growth potential,

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5.0
May 11, 2026
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Pros

The SAIC management on my contract are excellent.

Cons

After completing my first years, I have no complaints. My SAIC experience has been everything that I had hoped.

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2.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
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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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