Pros
Where do I begin? 1. Peers are great to work with. 2. Work/life benefits can be great, but that is dependent on manager and work dynamics. SAIC is more diverse than its Defense Contracting peers at roughly 14% women and minorities in upper management and 42% in the company overall. 3. New progressive initiatives are in place like the web portal functionality, daily employee spotlight, employee mentoring, zero tolerance on bad ethics, accounting and payroll standardization, community service, etc. The effectiveness of these new projects remains to be seen. 4. Tuition reimbursement.
Cons
1. On the surface, managers have an open door policy as long as you do not want to advance your career. In essence, to move up is to move out. In all fairness to the managers, they established the beachhead so why would they want you to climb over their bodies. 2. SAIC’s lifeblood is contracts so you live and die by the contract. Need to have better system for employee transition between contracts instead of 2 weeks or you are out. 3. As much as SAIC tries to be diverse, the old boys club is alive and thriving. 4. Employee morale is decreasing. It seems that the wrong people continually get recognized and rewarded. 5. Lack of courage to persaude client to implement cutting edge technology instead of technology they are comfortable with. In some cases we are talking about technology as old as 10-20 years ago. One thing that this insures, upgrades.
