TASC Employee Reviews for Technical Project Manager

What do you like about working at TASC?

"I like the projects that I develop; the colleagues I recruit to staff my projects; the ability to use my skills and education identifying and carrying out those projects; my freedom to innovate solutions; and, a lack of micro-management."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"My experience with TASC is limited to this one site. Given that, my advice would be to avoid interviewing here until the contract's status is resolved; there is more than one customer; there is a new senior management team in place; and the two private equity firms that own TASC decide what they want to do with the business - sell it, terminate it, etc. I've heard that other TASC sites are much better than this one (better facilities, beter management, multiple customers, better training)."

What don't you like about working at TASC?

"Our prior employer Northrop Grumman assigned us to its TASC subsidiary and then sold that entity to two private equity firms - none of us asked to work for TASC. Our assigned program manager refuses to have any contact with the personnel who work here - terrible morale. No opportunities for growth or development. If you want training, you have to pay for it yourself and attend on vacation hours. My supervisor is someone in Colorago who I've never met. Our contract with our federal customer expired two months ago, and we haven't heard a thing about a new one. And, a couple of days agon, our customer's business function mandated that we take a minimum 54% cut in positions."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I used to be a private consulting working with businesses like this: 1) Replace the long-entrenched senior management team. They demonstrate a complete absence of concern for people, quality, morale, motivation, or communication. I've been a manager in several organizations, but I've never worked anywhere like this. 2) The senior managers here need to understand the importance of engaging the minds of the highly educated, experienced professionals who work here. 3) Overall, there is a profound lack of leadership in evidence everywhere I look. Nobody cares about anything more than getting through another day of building Powerpoint decks, spreadsheets, and carrying out niggling 'taskers'. 4) The truly frustrating thing is that I've found no shortage of people here who are looking for leadership, inspiration, encouragement, direction, acknowledgement - the basics of any motivation/engagement model. 5) I've lost track of the number of process improvement proposals the employees have submitted, and not received as little as a rejection notice."