I'm thinking of applying. How long does the background check take?
The firm's background check or the check for a clearance? If I recall correctly, the firm's check took me a few days, maybe a week, when I joined them a while back. Referring to your overall question, the experience at BAH is very dependent on your project and your admin chain. I used to work at Deloitte back in the day and we got a bunch of BAH laterals who hated their time at BAH because of awful admin chains, but when I had a stint at BAH before my current role, I enjoyed it. Comp is all over the map depending on whether you're a capability hire or a funded hire, the client, and your skillset.
I should have clarified, the security clearance and not regular background check. Most of the roles I've seen mention there will be a clearance requirement.
Depends on the level of clearance. Public Trust might take as little as a month, Secret generally 3-6 months, and Top Secret 6-18 months. Could be quicker, could take even longer. Unless they've changed in the past few years since I was there, if there's a specific S/TS requirement for the role, you won't get hired unless you already have the clearance.
I’m associate lv and was hired as Sr full stack at 118k—as capability hire. now I’m trying to get a raise at my current project. I do feel like I’m underpaid and I could get 130-135k with a MS in CS and 8+ years and cloud AWS certs.
Do you think you could have negotiated with the initial offer? How are you liking it there?
Going from $118k to $130k without a promo is generally a tough sell. Assuming the contract can support the increased cost, you'd have to get buy in from the SA and P running the show, as well as your CM and admin chain. It's easier if your admin chain is also the admin chain for your project, as otherwise it adds an additional layer of complexity. It's not impossible, per se, but an off-cycle increase is harder to get than pushing for the same during the annual review cycle. Edit: Generally, in my experience there and Deloitte, the "common" way to get off-cycle increases was to get buy-in from the relevant admin chains and move to a different project that could support your new cost, since current projects generally don't have much wiggle room for additional costs. For example, if BAH is running a project with a 3% margin, paying you that incremental increase might make that project unprofitable in the long run or lower the margin to the point where it's unacceptable to the P and VP managing the portfolio.
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