Leidos reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(5,065 total reviews)
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Tom Bell

86% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Leidos has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,065 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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5K reviews
2.0
Aug 31, 2023

Toxic

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Worked in maritime group. Was able to learn a lot and experience very cool technology.

Cons

Toxic workplace. An individual runs the group will hire junior engineers and yell at them for not meeting expectations. Individuals are in managerial positions and are only a couple years out of college and manage people who have more experience and knowledge than they do. Obvious lies to customer and unrealistic timelines. Certain individuals seem to be able to attend every trip to customer locations and enjoy expensive dinners and parties, while underpaying engineers getting the work done. They hired people with more experience and then those people made improvements to the system and were yelled at and told to make things worse again. Withholding information from junior engineers, then dropping a deadline and forcing what are essentially children in the workplace to work over the weekend. Making incorrect purchases, thousands wasted on purchasing the wrong type of cards or servers, and the engineers doing the work aren’t even consulted beforehand. A new engineer on his 4th week was harshly yelled at in front of me for a mistake he didn’t even make. This is just the tip of the ice berg

4.0
May 3, 2023

Great company overall

Recommend
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Pros

Great salary and benefits. Minimal supervision from offsite supervisor. Enough meetings to have good colleague relationships. Flexible hours, some of it remote from anywhere. Fairly casual dress for working with children.

Cons

The only downside is they are kind of famous for technical problems on the company issued iPads and iPhones. However, this is a known issue and technical problems have never been held against me, or have slowed work during work hours, which are pretty flexible anyway. Some of the on-site staff are not exactly warm to this contractor position, but most are and I just steer clear of negative people. I do have a minor disability and the contractor site was not helpful accommodating me, but Leidos did try. That won’t affect most people.

1.0
Aug 11, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Is okay with paying overtime (base rate) if the project budget allows, turnover are very common so it's easier to get in then gain some experience and get out

Cons

Upper management : Unrealistic expectations and goals, incredibly low budget given to employees while still billing clients at ridiculously high prices (I'm guessing the upper management takes all the money while doing none of the work), 2% annual raises are standard but be prepared to walk on water if you want a promotion or anything beyond 2% raises (all of my coworkers in the office have NEVER had or seen that happen unless if it was an EXTREME case), There was some talk about performance bonuses but I think they were only given to senior engineers or higher (I don't expect the bonuses to be that much anyways, maybe 2% salary max). If multiple employees leave due to bad middle management, upper management won't do anything so don't even bother saying anything in the exit interview Middle management : I have a feeling what you experience is heavily influenced by middle management in this company. I have seen behaviors of middle management in the office ranging from checking on employees on Skype if he's offline for 1-2 hours or checking up on project progress every 15 minutes or getting off when an employee occasionally arrives late by 10-15 minutes or expecting employees to jump over hoops for unexpected deadline changes (even if it involves working 60+ hours weeks through weekends unpaid or 30 something hours continuously overnight partially paid due to not enough budget). Wage is roughly 10% below other competitors, 15 days PTO, 6% 401k match vested in 3 years, average healthcare, lots of unpaid overtime expected, no performance bonus, standard 2% annual raise and higher raises are almost unheard

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