SRA International reviews

Being sold to Providence Equity was the worst thing that could have happened to SRA employees. Many other reviews tell the story about cut benefits, so there's no need to repeat those. The capability centers are a joke. Their leaders are new to the company, have no idea about who has what skills and where they are located in the company. They have no idea about past performance and have no idea who does know. Dissolving the horizontal specialty practices has been a disaster. The specialty practices used to manage their staffs and projects managers could go to practice management for help staffing surge or part-time requirements. Now, project managers can't staff or deliver surge, short or part-time projects. Overhead no longer exists. You can't even get $1,000 for tools or training. SRA is hemorrhaging experienced staff and managers. Bill Ballhaus has surrounded himself with a bunch of sycophants who are out of touch with their teams and reality. The company has lost recompetes and hasn't won much in the way of new business. While management boasts about the IDIQ or BPA contract wins, the company has won few, if any, task orders under those IDIQs or BPAs. SRA recently received a stop work order on a large (100+ staff) contract because of delivery issues. Long term employees at all level are demoralized. While the company publishes the percentage of voluntary terminations (one or two percent above competitors), they are afraid to publish the number of people who are laid-off. The company used to pride itself on hiring people for a career, not a contract. Now it's a lousy body shop. It's really upsetting to see what has happened to a once great company.

If your looking at working for this company, I suggest you keep looking... It's pretty bad when going back to Iraq seems like a better option. The company has all kinds of opportunity to capture work, however the capture team is horribly incompetent. I think its even more disappointing to have seen the company in good times, and now in bad times. 401k cut this year was ridiculous. Making the 401k only match if your with the company for the full year. So an employee starts on the 15th of January and doesn't qualify for 401k matching for the year, ridiculous. Worse is those that have been with the company for the full year, don't get their matching until next year, and it doesn't compound which defeats the purpose of a 401k entirely. They should take it off the benefits list.