Good work, horrible company - Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) SAIC Employee Review

3.0
Mar 29, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Work was challenging but interesting and engaging. Really enjoyed the day to day life. Work life balance was no issue as well. Benefits are great, pay was very competitive, coworkers are mostly great to work with, plenty of lateral opportunities

Cons

PM and above leadership has no regard for those under them, unless you're in the "good ole boys club" or their particular work social circle. Redeployment program is a joke and offers no real help to find another position in the company. Retirement benefits are designed to handcuff you. Their 401k contribution schedule is on a quarterly basis, so it hinders growth where most other companies contribute per pay period. When raise season comes around the same recycled excuse is always used of "well we didn't grow as much as we hoped, or, due to X situation raises will be tight..."

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

Decent learning and development opportunities. Some really passionate and hard working people on your teams. Performance management is relaxed and flexible.

Cons

Benefits are wildly expensive for a company of their size. Was laid off with 1.5 months notice right before Christmas. Months prior to layoff was forced to use my PTO due to gov shutdown, but was still getting my full paycheck during shutdown. I believe this was so that they could diminish our PTO banks so they would have to pay out less when they laid us off. Laid off with zero severance despite being at company for almost 4 years and being in good standing. No efforts from management to make connections for a new internal role despite being strongly encouraged to search internally. New CEO Jim is not personable at all. Gives heavy corporate and cog in a machine vibes. Rumor has it that in the defense contracting industry, SAIC will be faring rather poorly within next 1-4 years.

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