SAIC gets worse and worse - Senior Principal Engineer SAIC Employee Review

1.0
15 Dec 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Free coffee, clean bathrooms, plenty of parking

Cons

I was a Scitor employee and was not concerned about the acquisition a few years ago. There's always a few things that change but the little chippy cuts in every little aspect have continued on 2+ years after the acquisition. I am astonished how they can crap on us and then ask us to recruit our friends into the company. The retention rate really sucks. We were told health insurance will go up slightly next year just a few percent, my plan doubled. It takes six months for purchasing to make an order and then it gets delivered to the wrong place. In order to do my job, I need some software, the 1 year license will run out before it's installed. I had hoped that some of the incompetent upper management would get cleared out but the opposite has happened. The good managers, popular and unpopular, have left and the bad ones have hung on and become "yes men" enforcers. We have become a company of employees that are trying to hang on a few more years to retirement and a bunch of kids that don't know how to do their jobs but work cheap and get billed out for lots of money.

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5.0
1 Jul 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-Love the contract -People are great to work with -Very flexible with times -If had a very long day, can lessen time to work less later in week

Cons

-Sometimes you gotta work a long freaking day -Have to be ready to get called to go to base at like 1 am

2.0
30 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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