SAIC Reviews

Former Employee – worked at SAIC full-time for more than a year

Pros – Large company that treated you like a small company. Great communication.

Cons – Management - great people but sometimes not so great at coming thru with promises in a timely fashion.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SAIC full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Get great experience in areas normally not available to Jr. positions
Management willing to listen
Education website available for CBTs
Good pay for market
Group RRSP
Great benefits

Cons – Management not always willing to work on fixing issues
Lack of contracts (Canada only)
Seem to be complacent when employees bring up a need to find another client to work for

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SAIC full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great resources. Depth and Breath

Cons – Capriciousness, indecision: company lacks real direction

Advice to Senior Management – Get your act together

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at SAIC full-time for more than a year

Pros – SAIC has a very good Culture, the Managers are good, easily approachable. Facilities too are very good inside the company. Shift allowances too are ok

Cons – Not much of Cons to think off, but being not such a big company, there aren't much of projects and they aren't keen to spend much on trainings

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at SAIC full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – SAIC is about making their customers happy. They strive to be the best in the industry and let their employees use innovation to reach this goal.

Cons – SAIC is in the process of splitting into 2 companies which is expected to happen in the Fall of 2013. While direct positions should not be affected there is currently a lot of changes to indirect employees which is making indirect positions very unstable and unattractive for the time being.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at SAIC full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Work environment is great oversees. Benefits like their 401k is outstanding! Health Insurance was easy to use and didn't cost much.

Cons – No yearly pay raises unless you get a different job where you can negotiate or get promoted.

Advice to Senior Management – Too much favoritism inhibits room for growth when one should be rewarded for merit and be able to excell or get promoted.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at SAIC full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Rate of Pay. Management and the people along with the many self service training programs created a wonderful experience for me personally. I would have stayed with SAIC for the rest of my Career could I have avoided the lay-off. I will miss working at SAIC.

Cons – SAIC just recently split causing a reduction in Labor Hours. Many people lost their job.
The Benefits Program also took a major hit.

Advice to Senior Management – Take a look into the lower ranks to get an overall picture of what it actually takes to run the many different programs.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at SAIC full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good balance work and life

Cons – High turnover, little upward mobility

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at SAIC full-time

Pros – Interesting work and jobs. Can be rewarding and satisfying. A lot of good middle management and coworkers. Lots of team building events

Cons – Not as employee centric as it was when it was employee owned. Many decisions are made with the "dollar" in mind. Some backtracking follows when it becomes apparent that the "dollar" decision is wrong.

Advice to Senior Management – Try listening to the employees that do the job and don't make the decisions based on what you "think" needs to be done.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SAIC full-time for more than a year

Pros – SAIC is dedicated to delivering innovative applications of science and technology from basic research to operationally deployed solutions. Long heritage of diverse and talented scientists and engineers solving tough problems. Good company to work for.

Cons – Lost touch with innovation heritage. Organizational framework lacks strategic focus.

Advice to Senior Management – Consider organizing around markets, products, services, or customers to eliminate operations inefficiencies and customer confusion. Consider institutionalizing people philosophy to hire and retain top talent.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend