Peraton reviews

- SAFe Agile is a buzz word and the people that do know what it actually entails are powerless to make it happen. These people are few and far between. - I can’t say that this is a Peraton-specific issue or if this is really just a feature of IC culture, but everyone is always in meetings. Most everyone is in meetings all day, and if you are in a technical role it will be hard to get anything done without skipping most every meeting. This makes it impossible to coordinate with your team and get anything done. - Outside of teams doing software development, there is little technical knowledge in the way of current software technology for you to pull from. Most people here earned their CS degrees in the 80’s and haven’t written (or punched) a line of code into a text editor or punch card in decades. Again, these people are smart, but they aren’t going to teach you the tools you need to succeed if you’re in a data science or modeling & simulation/analysis role. - Contract structuring may result in you being a part of multiple teams, which can be challenging when you need to coordinate meetings and get things done. - It is extremely easy to get paid to do nothing. Only 20% of the people here are actually keeping the lights on. Employee accountability is low. - Most employees at this company are older (>50). There are plenty of employees who should have retired a long time ago, and for whatever reason they are still working at this company. I can only speculate that these employees are either extremely passionate about their jobs, unable to afford retirement, or that the company is paying them a significant amount to stay because of their knowledge. I believe that the latter case is the most likely. I am listing this as a con, but note that there are pros to this mainly due to what you can learn from the older generation. However, I list this as a con because I see this as a significant issue for the company mainly because there are not many 30 and 40 year olds running around. This leaves a huge divide between the early career professionals that Peraton hires straight out of college and the older generation running the show. I’m not sure what will happen when most of these people retire, but I suspect this will manifest as a significant issue for the company in 10 years due to their inability to retain young people. - Peraton is owned by Veritas Capital. Veritas has been pumping and dumping some of the entities that make up Peraton for years. I would expect this company to IPO or get bought out at some point soon. - The benefits for Perspecta (now a large part of Peraton) were never consistent and the insurance company used changed every year. This can be difficult if you have medical issues. - The company expects you to bill 1860 hours in a year to meet 100% utilization. It is extremely difficult to meet 100% utilization and use all your PTO in a year, and Peraton actively disincentives you to take your PTO with its utilization culture. Not meeting 100% utilization significantly impacts the amount of your yearly bonus, and some managers look down on not hitting 100% utilization. The company will tell you that if most people don’t hit 100% utilization that it will need to reconsider its benefits policies. This is for TS/SCI employees only. - Toxic culture of telling their employees that no other employers offer good benefits. This is simply not true and many employees truly believe this. - People here work a LOT. They’ll tell you that you only need to do 40 hours a week, but many people work more than that.

Morale is low. Some cases it seems as if I’m certain programs, they place butts in seats with no actual qualifications or background in the field of work. Breeds complacency