Great Program Manager Makes for Great Work Conditions - Network Engineer SAIC Employee Review

5.0
11 May 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Having an accessible, caring, and experienced Program Manager made for great work conditions. I'd say the PM's rapport with personnel was as more of a note on this manager's style, but, overall, if his superiors didn't allow the space for him to run the show the way he seen fit, I'm sure it would likely have been evident. This manager had between 250 and 300 employees assigned to his program, but was accessible and made non-management employees feel equally important to any of his managers.

Cons

I worked at the company 14 years. We had only recently been acquired by SAIC. The PM I speak so highly of migrated along with me as a result of the acquisition. Following acquisition, I was only with the company another 7 month, moving on to relocate out of state.

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