Science Systems and Applications reviews

They recently switched to a one time contribution of 3% of your salary to your 401k. They refused to hand out raises or at the very least do a Cost of Living Raise claiming financial struggles but is happy spending money buying cars and throwing frivolous employee events to increase employee morale that employees are not interested in but refuses to actually make changes that would increase said morale. The CEO has clueless when it comes to how it all works and comes across as parroting talking points given to her during company meetings The company has been evidently been pushing either bots or other employees leave 5 star reviews to mask real complaints and reviews of real employees .

Underpaid: you will be underpaid. Find a private sector job and it will almost certainly pay more. The benefits are mediocre at best. Topline healthcare is 180/month for 1500 deductible and 50-100 copays on visits and prescriptions. 401k match is 3%. Furthermore, as of March 2025, a freeze on pay raises and promotions are also in place for the "indefinite future", so if you choose to work here make sure you negotiate well when you are hired. Understaffed: SSAI is effectively just a HR company for NASA/NOAA. All the research, development, maintenance you may do (if you have one of those roles) is for NASA/NOAA, and has nothing to do with SSAI. That said, SSAI is TERRIBLE at HR. I have met one competent person, and she does trip reimbursements. I was verbally berated during onboarding by two different people for asking for help figuring out my benefits (this is my first "real" job) - once because I asked the wrong person for help, and then again by the "correct" person, because I asked for help. Under Bahethi: SSAI was founded by Dr. Om Bahethi, who sadly passed away in late 2024. I never met him, but have only heard positive things about him. The definition of a self-made man, he seemed like someone who truly cared about people, not only because they were his employees, but also because they were fellow humans and simply deserved his respect. He stepped down some time ago, and last year his children took over the leadership roles of the company. They, quite simply, are lacking the compassion that their father apparently had in abundance. The the raise/promotion freeze, (very rare) emails filled with non-answers and legalese, and the general sense that they are unwilling to fight for their employees in this time of turmoil has given the sense that they care more about the survival of the company then the success/livelihoods of their employees.