Great people; average compensation - Senior Software Engineer SAIC Employee Review

4.0
2 Dec 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Quite competent technical teams in general; management fair and doesn't micro-manage. Flexible schedules, challenging work, unreasonable year-end deadlines but program management does their best to provide support. Very nice empoyee break area with cold water, ice, great coffee and tea. Middle management works hard to create a sense of unity amongst teams.

Cons

Cross displinary team communication and priorities are at odds. Salaries are on the low side for the industry and area. The physical work space is horrendous; such low unpadded walls that all conversations carry. No cube chairs for visitors so they must stand and disturb everyone in the immediate area when having a technical discussion.

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5.0
6 Jun 2026
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Pros

Good salary and benefits now

Cons

Working for the government can be stressful

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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