Peraton reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(1,735 total reviews)
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Steve Schorer

59% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Peraton has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,735 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Peraton employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Jun 17, 2022
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Pros

They offer good (but pretty standard for large companies) benefits package for the state I live in. They allow remote work - at least for my location.

Cons

It could be just my manager but people in my team are treated like warm bodies to be pimped out. Every week it must be absolutely 40 hours billable so that the manager will look good? Or maybe the manager gets a bonus based on the team's total billable hours? This tells me my manager does not believe in investment where employees can learn new skills and tackle new problems. Icing on the cake, my team has a constant stream of fresh college grads being assigned to various projects - projects that need seasoned staff to handle. Surely, that will increase the company's billable hours because the junior staff will have to spend so much more time in researching and the outcome is probably not as good as it can be. I keep wondering how the company could ever retain any clients from that perspective... My manager also likes to dump all the juniors staff on a single senior staff to be taken care of. Needless to say, this over-burdens the "baby-sitters" and burn them out faster than you can say "Alexa..." The place has gotten so toxic that people are quitting left and right as we speak. The company also has crappy IT support, equipments and ridiculous policies. Just like any other company servicing government contracts, IT is more interested in checking the boxes so they can say, "Yup, we are compliant" than to care the machines they send are utterly unusable to do any real work on. Overall, it may be an okay company if someone is just starting out their career (because it seems to be easy to get hired). I suspect that someone will likely quit once s/he has gotten a few years of experience - as that seems to be the pattern so far.

1.0
Jan 24, 2022

Your employee number is your asset tag.

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Pros

None the differentiate themselves from any other defense company

Cons

You’re treated as just an asset to a company. I don’t mean an asset as a contributor but as something that can be bought and sold. This is the third company I’ve worked for in three years because our division keeps getting sold. Don’t expect to hear anything from anyone as the only form of communication is automated news letters where you’ll probably miss half the important stuff anyways. Don’t expect to keep your same doctor based on the insurance plan options. I made that mistake. New hires get a baseline PTO hour accrual rate. You’ll be at that rate until you cross 10 years of service, then you get an extra 5 days. Company is owned by a venture capital business “Veritas Capital” so I can only imagine us getting sold again or something being out in place that benefits them.

1.0
Oct 18, 2021

One of the worst places to work

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Pros

There are truly no pros to working here

Cons

As someone who had just graduated college, I thought this was a great company with great starting salary… boy was I wrong. Little did I know that I’d work here for 4 years with absolutely no raise whatsoever, I went through 3 merges/name changes (and I see another has happened since I left), and the company is STILL laying people off. They are losing contracts (which I said would happen) and they are underpaying their employees. This company is being run into the ground. I feel so bad for those who spent 30+ years with them, as this is clearly not the same company they started out with. Get ready to get a new manager every 6 months or so ( I went through 6 managers), terrible, inconsistent pay (yep, I would get like half my paycheck because their system sucks, or they thought I wouldn’t notice) and not being appreciated. There’s way better out there than this job… do yourself a favor and don’t waste your time time.

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