Pros
When I started off at SAIC it was a tremendous company. The work was cutting edge and the management - for about 99% of the time - was tremendous and made me do my best work. To this day I still fondly remember the best of times with SAIC when it was an employee owned company, and I had an opportunity to work on some of the most interesting technical projects and learned skills that I never dreamed of when I graduated from college. And a lot of the employees and co-workers were some of the most interesting people.
Cons
When SAIC management voted out the founder of the company and replaced him with a hack from one of SAIC's competitors, then things started going down hill. The money that the board of directors threw at the employees was nothing more than a bribe. Then when the company split and my project went to Leidos that was the final straw because I was only an employee of Leidos for 2 1/2 weeks when I came back to SAIC and my nearly 30 years of service with SAIC before the split did not count for anything it was a tremendous disappointment. I left SAIC but recently I have applied to new jobs but the follow-up from recruiters has been just awful.
