Leidos reviews

After an IPO, and self-imposed corporate suicide, dividing SAIC into two companies: newSAIC and Leidos Corp., it appears Leidos has sold it's sole to it's shareholders, sacrificing staff in the process. The company is going through a major downgrade; divesting itself of long time acquired real estate in favor of massive cube farms, outsourcing of all corporate functions, drastic cutting of employee benefits (while inflating Director's benefits) including healthcare and incentives, continuous reorganizations across a national landscape (I never even met my last several Division Managers - none even located in my state), etc., all to show profitability to the shareholders. The company is losing technical, and support staff faster than a children's party clown with Tourette Syndrome (yes, borrowed from D. Miller) - that is, those surviving the rounds of layoffs that reappear on the horizon on a tidal frequency. There seems to be a bit of a bunker mentality emerging among the middle management folks.

I was with SAIC for nearly 29 years when my project went to Leidos as part of the "gentleman's agreement" that split the company. As far as I was concerned the split was handled very poorly with very little communication about what it meant. The upshot was that if I had remained with Leidos I would have kept my service time, but what was not told was that if a Leidos employee went back to SAIC that they would lose it; those who were with SAIC, however, and moved to Leidos would keep theirs. Anyway, my project imploded and I was forced to find new work. Given that there was a partial government shutdown, a corporate HR that was being stood up, it was just a mess. I went back to SAIC after 2.5 weeks as a Leidos employee and guess what: I lost my service time (which meant that nearly 30 years of service DID NOT COUNT for anything and I had to start all over again as a BRAND NEW employee!!!