SAIC reviews

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.

As a female, and the only female on my team, it was like working in a men's locker room, everyone felt it was OK to make offensive comments and some clearly got further in career by unprofessional relationships. There was a click of some very senior execs and if you find your way in ton , then you can do no wrong. Reorg is annual and it always happens before annual review so new supervisor doesn't have info/ reason to give bonus or keep you on the team at all. If you do get a bonus most of it is stock and they take it back when you leave or are let go regardless of reason.