You are just a warm body to be pimped out - Software Developer Peraton Employee Review

2.0
17 Jun 2022
Recommend
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Pros

They offer good (but pretty standard for large companies) benefits package for the state I live in. They allow remote work - at least for my location.

Cons

It could be just my manager but people in my team are treated like warm bodies to be pimped out. Every week it must be absolutely 40 hours billable so that the manager will look good? Or maybe the manager gets a bonus based on the team's total billable hours? This tells me my manager does not believe in investment where employees can learn new skills and tackle new problems. Icing on the cake, my team has a constant stream of fresh college grads being assigned to various projects - projects that need seasoned staff to handle. Surely, that will increase the company's billable hours because the junior staff will have to spend so much more time in researching and the outcome is probably not as good as it can be. I keep wondering how the company could ever retain any clients from that perspective... My manager also likes to dump all the juniors staff on a single senior staff to be taken care of. Needless to say, this over-burdens the "baby-sitters" and burn them out faster than you can say "Alexa..." The place has gotten so toxic that people are quitting left and right as we speak. The company also has crappy IT support, equipments and ridiculous policies. Just like any other company servicing government contracts, IT is more interested in checking the boxes so they can say, "Yup, we are compliant" than to care the machines they send are utterly unusable to do any real work on. Overall, it may be an okay company if someone is just starting out their career (because it seems to be easy to get hired). I suspect that someone will likely quit once s/he has gotten a few years of experience - as that seems to be the pattern so far.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

My experience with Peraton’s hiring process was deeply disappointing and, unfortunately, reflected very poor communication practices. I received an offer in October for a position supporting a newly awarded FAA contract supporting their new Air Traffic Control System and was initially told that I would receive a start date in December. When December arrived, I was informed that the timeline had shifted to January. This same message continued each month, with repeated assurances that the position was still moving forward and that I simply needed to remain patient. Over the course of nearly six months, I completed all requested pre-employment steps, including the background check, and made multiple attempts to obtain meaningful updates through email. Most of those requests were met with little to no response, and the limited communication I did receive provided no real clarity beyond another delayed timeline. After being consistently led to believe the role was still active, I was ultimately contacted and informed that my offer had been rescinded due to changing business needs. While I understand that contracts and staffing requirements can change, waiting six months with minimal transparency only to have the offer withdrawn is unacceptable and demonstrates a lack of respect for candidates’ time and career planning. I was very excited about this next phase of my career, as well as the opportunity to support this new contract. But after this ordeal, I quite frankly do not recommend anyone to seek employment here.

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