SAIC reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(4,899 total reviews)

Jim Reagan

59% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

SAIC has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,899 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SAIC employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Nov 23, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

One of the best reasons to work at SAIC is for the opportunity to collaborate and learn from some very bright scientists and engineers. SAIC has a very good base of very smart people. SAIC usually has business in its sales pipeline within its federal and commercial sector opportunity. One of the best reasons to work at SAIC is for the opportunity to collaborate and learn from some very bright scientists and engineers. SAIC has a very good base of very smart people. SAIC usually has business in its sales pipeline within its federal and commercial sector opportunity. Sorry, this is all I have time to write.

Cons

Most of the time you will start your career here working well over forty hours work weeks. While doing this, you will only be paid for a normal work week. You will be used for your expertise until the project is completed. Then, you will either be transitioned to a support role, thrown on another project, or placed on internal work via a bench until you are told to leave the company. All of this would have been avoided has the sales folks actually closed more sales instead of generating a bunch of activity with little to no results. The sales pipeline has problems closing leaving delivery scrambling for the next gig.

2.0
Nov 13, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

As far as defense companies go SAIC is mediocre, and there it seams is where they want to stay. If other companies offer a benefit SAIC will match it, but never pass it. Not all is bad, the management is so clueless that you could stroll in around 10 and leave around 3 and as long as you have all your work done, they really dont care. Also there is no dress code, so everyone pretty much wears jeans and short all year long, sandals are not uncommon either. They really take personal time here very seriously, I have been in meetings where we waste more time trying to satisfy everyones schedule than we do in requirements gathering and design. anything to not miss that new movie, or that bike race, you get the idea.

Cons

2 words, MANAGEMENT SUCKS, this place is a throw back to the 80's it is so research focused that about 85% of the management has no clue how to treat human beings. The concept of empathy is so gone from these people that they are could run over you in a car and then get out of the car to make sure the car was ok. There is absolutely no leadership and Upper management is commonly undermined by middle management. There are some horrible software issues as well, the transition from prototype to operation is completely gone. Management just does not have a clue how to set up the processes to do that. In one word its a mess, stay as far away from here if you value your career and want to see it flourish or if you want to grow as a technical abilities.

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