TASC Reviews

Current Employee – been working at TASC full-time for less than a year

Pros – Benefits are stellar and work is very interesting.

Cons – There are not really many cons I can think of.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at TASC full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – The people. Great individuals working towards team goals.

Cons – The work environment has changed in the past few years. Senior management was usually promoted from within or at least came with a government background. Newer management has come from outside and hasn't been able to figure out the government contracting environment.

Former Employee – worked at TASC full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Good management and benefits package

Cons – We are under Northrop control

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at TASC full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great people with shared goals made the place a great place to work. A lot of diverse projects to work on if you are located in Northern Virginia area. Good pay and flexible work arrangements, depending on the type of position and your manager.

Cons – Benefits have declined each year since TASC was sold to KKR and General Atlantic. New Senior Leadership that came in after the sale in 2009 was from outside the Defense Industry and it showed. Everything in the company now is about making more and more money. Consistent downsizing to allow more money to be sent to Equity Firms.

Advice to Senior Management – This company is all about the people that support the programs for the government. Many people in the company have complained about how much more management was brought into the company after 2009, while many productive staft, especially those that support across the corporation, where laid off. Morale has greatly suffered because of this, and that is sad. TASC used to do fun things with for their employees, not so now. It is just a place to get a paycheck.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at TASC full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Lots of freedom to set the core hours that you work, occasional telecommuting, travel that is usually within reason, good work for the pay if you can get it.

Cons – Continual concern about your position, lots of lay offs right now, the companies business practices really need help. No training, very limited advancement opportunities.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at TASC full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good managers wiling to help you out, interesting work, friendly atmosphere. Depending on job, work schedule can be very flexible.

Cons – Some benefits have decreased in the last couple of years such as less contribution/matching to 401k plans, certain aspects of health care plans have become more expensive (higher out of pocket expenses), maximum allowable PTO rollover from year to year is decreasing, amount employees can contribute to flex spending account has decreased, etc. This seems to be a general trend in most companies in this type of industry though, so it might be comparable to what other companies are doing.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at TASC full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – great place to start career.

Cons – low employer contributed 401k plan

Advice to Senior Management – listen to your employees requests

Former Employee – worked at TASC full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Not satisfied with status quo

Cons – Current only offers services to US Federal Government: should diversify its customer base

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at TASC full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – TASC is a very low-key place to work. It seems like most of my peers are semi-retired military or government employees who are valuable for their prior experience in government or military service and the technical and/or financial management skills. Because so most of the employees here are valued for their prior experience, the job isn't as much about trying to work 80 hours per week like some consulting firms.

The customers really seem to respect the TASC people on site.

People are relatively safe in their work as long as the contract remains active although there will be fewer contracts out there.

Cons – There seems to be little opportunity for advancement. You can work really hard and get little more than a pat on the head. Our team earned a 100% award fee. Instead of bonuses we got pizza.

Seniority really seems to count here.

The fact that many of the employees are retired military and government who have access to benefits like military health benefits makes it bad for the rest of us. The health insurance benefits really need improvement and my managers and co-workers (who are retired military) don't seem to care much. Pay seems to have barely kept up with inflation, the benefits have gotten worse.

Today is the date of the "Snowquester" storm (March 6th, 2013) where there is five inches of snow on the ground at TASC HQ. The federal government is closed. The state is telling people to stay off the roads. TASC is telling people to use their vacation time if they can't get into work and bill your time to the government.

Advice to Senior Management – The company is owned by two hedge funds and the management have set some unrealistic goals for themselves. Stand up to KKR and set some realistic expectations. You work for them but you represent us.

Show employees that they can advance. Its really good to be a part of the vigor at the customer site. But when you get back to the company HQ, you just see a bunch of old men hanging around the coffee machine. Is this really what I am supposed to be aspiring to? Why bother trying to exceed expectations if there is no reward for that additional effort.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at TASC full-time

Pros – Excellent pay and great benefits.

Cons – Defense Contractors are a very competitive industry especially during military budget cuts.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend