A great entry point into world of government contracting. - Mid-Level 3D Game Development Artist SAIC Employee Review

4.0
Oct 11, 2024
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Pros

-reputable company with a large, established team -many resources available to the employee in terms of health benefits, flexible leave, internal career development aids etc. -supportive teammates -everyone is goal oriented -working on different contracts exposes you to a variety of different people and working challenges

Cons

-as an artist, nobody knows what your job is -in the contracting world you don't own your work so using them on your public portfolio is a headache -large corporate company can make communicating with the right people difficult.

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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
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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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