Pros
- Abundant level of positions available across all skill sets. - Defined Engineering and Project Managmeent Career paths. - Training options - Project Managers will attempt to 'place' you on another project in the event of budget cuts or contract chages. - Multitudes of contracts earned, renewed each year meaning there is ample opprotunity to move into senior lead or Project Management roles.
Cons
- Big company and red tape required to take advantage of the Pros listed above - Federal Contracts only, meaning you are subject to the whims of the federal direction / budget (Although as a compnay SAIC has so many it very rarely affects them) - Not a lot of 'reconigition' for those outside of the prime engineering or project management roles. - Support for profesional confrence attendance is available but not consistent between different projects and required Goverment approval and support making it difficult.