Ok work. Terrible benifits - Junior Software Engineer SAIC Employee Review

2.0
22 Jun 2016
Recommend
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Pros

I was in a solid group with an excellent manager so I had a lot of the work place benefits of that. Pay was mostly competitive

Cons

The benefits package was absolutely pitiful. Outlandishly expensive company owned health insurance that didn't really cover much of anything with a ridiculously high deductible. Over all got the vibe of an extreme disconnect between upper level managment and the lower level employees. People were dropping right and left from the project.

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5.0
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Pros

Good salary and benefits now

Cons

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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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