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A Different Kind of Company - Anonymous employee Praescient Analytics Employee Review

4.0
Feb 4, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Casual work environment at HQ despite working within the intelligence community and other federal spaces. Very refreshing in comparison to other beltway government contractors. -Very smart team, with an emphasis on hiring intelligent, interesting employees rather than just looking at a hard list of requirements. -Best health benefits I've ever had. 100% company paid in most cases, and very competitive for family coverage. -The company has managed to diversify its business model since 2013, transitioning from a single-platform service shop to a far more dynamic offering of prime, sub, and sole source work. Beyond that, exciting partnerships with some IT industry leadership is on the way.

Cons

Praescient suffers some of the usual "small company" woes while transcending others. On the one hand, hours can sometimes be long during surges or when cross-support is required as we grow/hire new employees. However, for a company under 100 people Praescient has the distinction of being able to support its contractors on overhead even if something disastrous happens on a contract, and actively works to find alternative work for them. Communication is both very transparent and very opaque, depending on how busy everyone is; It can sometimes be very easy for information to skip someone or fall through the cracks when we're busy (we're working on that).

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5.0
May 5, 2023
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Pros

Company gave me autonomy to grow my skill sets. I've been included in meetings that in my last job I would have not been allowed to join. Very inclusive company. Friendly, fun and mature leadership.

Cons

Some of the remote employees caused some negative issues which caused some disruption.

3.0
Oct 2, 2017
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Pros

Rigorous application process. Always felt like fellow employees were technically proficient, mission-focused, and motivated. The work itself was challenging and exciting. I always felt like I was adding value to the customer organization and was constantly given positive feed back. In the beginning the company was appropriately hands-off as far as micro-managing the analysts. You were able to work closely with more experienced members that stretched back to the first days of the company and its partnerships with the client. It was a true example of being mentored to greater amounts of technical proficiency and leadership responsibility and interactions with the customer.

Cons

The company had a written policy that they would cover the (reasonable) costs of technical training for personal and company skills enhancement. Numerous requests, my own as well as others, were accepted in paper form but never returned. They just seemingly disappeared down a rabbit hole. The company also had a tremendous amount of overhead positions that did not earn any money for the company. As more and more overhead was taken on over the months, it made analysts feel like they were cash cows for the company but little else. There was very little opportunity to transfer to other locations even when those positions became open. When forced to work overtime, the company would not pay any more money, even if you had to work on military timelines (12 hour days for one to two weeks at a time. A field exercise for example). Lastly, the company was transparent in the beginning, with various teams helping each other frequently. But over the months less and less flowed down until it seemed as though the company was purposefully not allowing communication between teams, and providing very little leadership.

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