I've been offered a position with PSI Pax. I currently work for BAE Systems. I'm now forced to make a decision for whom to work for. Does anyone work for PSI Pax? If so how do you like the company? With the economy in such a mess is now a good time to switch to a smaller company? Please help…any advice is appreciated.
I was offered two different jobs at around the same time, PSI Pax being one, and BAE being the other. I took PSI Pax's offer because they were offering more money and the people I had interacted with from PSI were absolutely wonderful to work with, even walked me through step by step getting my top secret security clearance. I'm now with PSI and I can't imagine going to another company unless I had absolutely no choice.
From my personal experience, PSI is very employee oriented, with bonuses given out for things like emails sent from customers praising your work, the aquiring of a new certificate or degree, etc etc.
As for those who seem to think that being with a bigger company is a better decision, look at it this way... I've known people who worked for large companies for 10+ years and always got great yearly reviews, but still got laid off at the end of their contract now that the economy and job market are the way they have been, just as well as I've known people with smaller companies who suffered the same fate. That's just the breaks with contracting, whether you're with a small company or a big one. With so many projects being nixxed with the newest administration, you have to be prepared, no matter who you work for, for the possibility that you might not have a job in 5-6 months.
Another thing to look at is if you're not working on base with BAE, you're probably not going to be exposed to as many people or teams with different companies. With PSI, I'm in a building that is loaded with people from a bunch of different companies and contracts, as well as gov't employees. If my contract here goes up and I loose my job, I stand a much better chance at finding another one more quickly because I know so many people here, I'm building a name for myself. Even if PSI lets me go because the contract is over, I have a foot in the door with other companies now.
Big business gives the illusion of security, but that doesn't mean anything nowadays. I think a lot of this is going to come down to who's offering you more money and better benefits, and what kind of company would you rather work for?
I assume that PSI didn't just randomly find your resume somewhere and make you an offer... chances are, you put it on the web or submitted it to them and that's how they found you... So if you're looking right now, that might be a clue that you're not happy where you are?