Leidos reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(5,088 total reviews)
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Tom Bell

85% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Leidos has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,088 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Leidos employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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4.0
Jul 9, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Your co-workers will be fantastic. Everyone is passionate about what they do, and they're always willing to answer a million questions. I bugged people daily for months - nobody ever questioned it. In fact, some of my more experienced co-workers asked just as many if not more questions than I do. The sharing of information is incredible. The pay is good, as well - they pay competitive rates with genuinely good benefits - they rival Federal Gov't benefits.

Cons

Upper management frequently tried to micromanage. The people acting as your managers (scrum masters, to be specific) don't have any idea what's actually happening. I am strongly against bloating managerial infrasturcture, and their idea of "agile" is slow as a turtle when it comes to change. You might as well call it "short term two-week waterfall" - it's bad. When the scrum masters don't call for 10 hours of meetings per week, work is done - and it's great. The problem: that only happens once a month, at most. Twice a year evaluations. Raises are given out like clockwork. Flat percentage, doesn't matter if you performed 120% for 6 months or if you performed at 75% for 6 months. If your boss thinks you don't deserved to get fired, you get a raise. The problem is that your raise is the same % as everyone else around you. It's not truly performance based. This also means there's no promotions. The only way to get promoted is to apply for another job within the company using the internal system to refer yourself.

1.0
Sep 12, 2019

Weak and Unethical Management

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Large company with many opportunities to learn and grow - Interesting work.

Cons

- Petty senior management who are weak minded and surround themselves with sycophants. - Suffocating bureaucracy - No tolerance for discussion of alternate ideas or approaches - Management confuses activity with accomplishment and rewards are based on this approach. - Succession plans are routinely ignored. Rather than promote from within senior positions are filled with external hires. - Lack of respect and trust towards employees

2.0
Jul 16, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good work/life balance. It's easy to make up missed hours, and it's extremely rare that to have to work overtime. Pay is decent

Cons

Every single tool and program you use will be an ancient, in-house, buggy mess. Can be hard to change jobs if you work here very long, as every piece of technology they use is non-standard and/or obsolete, so you don't gain any experience with technologies still used by other companies. Your will only spend about 10% your work day actually coding. The rest will be spent dealing with massive amounts of bureaucratic red tape.

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