SAIC reviews

Large companies can sometimes make you feel like a number

As they say in sales, "honestly" is a word you never hear from an honest person. I sometimes wonder if the company has such a fanatical focus on ethics because a lot of their hiring practices seem a little bit less-than-ethical. For example, the company routinely hires ex-government employees within days, sometimes minutes, of those employees leaving the government. Sometimes, the employees thus hired aren't obviously of technical use to the company. For example, I've seen engineers hired who had no engineering degree and minimal experience in the field they're hired into. It's not easy to pick up RF network engineering on the fly. Sometimes, the work comes before the employees. Getting the job done on schedule and under budget sometimes has impacts like unpaid overtime and the 90-hour workweek. Company policy unfortunately forbids taking the extra 50 hours as vacation later.