Resume Padding - Investigator CACI International Employee Review

1. You'll rack up miles on your personal vehicle (though again they reimburse fairly, but financially it zeroes out; you're getting money for repairs/maintenance or just a new one) 2. The pay is insulting for the the amount of work you're expected to complete and the amount of responsibility you have. Locality pay is non-existent. An FI in Little Rock makes as much as someone in San Francisco. Several months ago the VP announced they would be piloting locality pay and would be introducing "in-between" levels (i.e. level 1.5, 2.5, etc)--nothing has changed. 3. Rules/regulations can change on a monthly basis and are interpreted in ten different ways, meaning there's no one right answer for something. Not an exaggeration. This is moreso OPM's doing, but CACI doesn't like to push back. The federal guys (who do the same exact job as you and make twice as much, FYI) have different sets of rules they follow, and CACI's oversight program is hawkish. This leads to people getting phone calls from IO asking why they chose to write something in a report that can be 100% truthful (maybe a generic statement about no additional information being obtainable), yet not verbatim with their notes. You can then be placed on probation. Not an exaggeration. This, in turn, leads to people conducting interviews in a style that favors reporting requirements. This has been explained numerous times in other reviews. 4. Metrics are troubling: Imagine working in a metro area, heavy traffic during peak hours, cooperation from the public is hit or miss, and remember that people in general are unreliable unless there's an incentive. You can legitimately work your butt off for 12 hours in the field and end up empty handed due to things out of your control--leadership will not care. You'll get an e-mail at the end of the month saying you should try harder next month, even though you explained it's not as simple as going somewhere and eliciting cooperation. The company recently readjusted their metrics (laughed off by everybody) and say they're continuously evaluating things, but metrics is discussed in detail by other reviews. 5. No sense of camaraderie: some people really enjoy working alone, and I respect that. But if you only see your teammates and boss twice a year, maybe 3-4 if you're lucky, it's impossible to have a sense of commitment to a team. 6. You can play investigator, but prepare for your stats to suffer if you spend too long on a case. Other reviews have discussed the "investigative" aspect of this job rather well. You need to churn out completed fieldwork ASAP. In training, time/case management is the focus, not investigative methods/techniques. 7. The pay--seriously, the pay is so insulting. 8. No room for advancement. The pay difference between a level 1 and 2 is negligible. I don't even see how people can be a level 3 without making some sort of compromise, that being their family/social life or their integrity. Though there are some 10-15 year veterans out there who know how to play the OPM game. You're not allowed to work over 40 hours unless OT is authorized (which can actually kill your stats). You're promoted based on how much work you churn out in a 40 hour period. There's little room for advancement to management positions within the contract leadership. Rarely will you see a former FI as top brass. 9. Awful, just awful relationship between FI's and reviewers; they have an adversarial relationship by design which only adds to the stress.