Leidos Reviews

Pros

I formerly worked for Lockheed Martin IS&GS before Leidos bought them and returned to Leidos after the transition. LM were good to work for but Leidos is better. They ensure a good balance between work and home and allowed me to work from home and have flexible hours during a family crisis. Many of my colleagues have access to RDOs. They have very competitive remuneration and reward good work. They provide challenging...

Cons

It is very difficult to get any internally funded training, even when it’s needed for the job. A lot of the work is in silos- it can sometimes look like a company just made up of a collection of individual projects.

Advice to Management

Keep looking after you staff well, but offer more opportunity to up-skill internally. Skillport is good but allowing some external training would be a big improvement.

Pros

Work life balance is extremely accommodating, RDO, choice of working from home or at multiple offices, flexible on start and finish times being altered occasionally and generous on giving time for illness/family concerns. Remuneration packages are by negotiation and are usually well above the market average for every role. Many highly technical and knowledgeable staff and most managers are welcoming, friendly, accommodating...

Cons

There is some degree of sexism remnant from the last expansion and sort of a boys club in the middle management layer.

Advice to Management

Spend more time on the career development of your employees so we can retain these bright sparks that move on to move up.

Pros

A lazy unrewarding career where you will be unfireable by any metric. Don't worry, no one who deserves to be fired has, so you can cruise along knowing full well you have a job for life. Free fruit* *subject to availability Some people are nice

Cons

A horrible mess of poor management, unfulfilling roles, a bloated bureaucracy, and a sense that you are nothing but a cog in the military industrial complex. "But it can't be that bad can it?" I hear you ask. Yes. Yes it really is. Be prepared to face aggressive, petty, backward looking managers, who have not upgraded their skills in 20+ years and are proud of it. People with such poor interpersonal skills, they...

Advice to Management

You know exactly what the problems are, and you choose to ignore them. You will be left with a company full of idlers and idiots, when all of the competent people have decided to leave. Good luck, you did this to yourselves.

Pros

Pay is great, people are great, conditions are great. Over all very happy.

Cons

Still in the process of going through a lot of change, all though this is probably more of a pro.

Advice to Management

Just keep looking after your people.

Pros

Flexible Hours Ground Staff Committed but failed by ELT and SLT

Cons

Leadership guided by EGO with business behaviours that are questionable with a propensity to manipulate the truth both from within and externally.Selection of staff in management falls short resulting in a disregard to policies impacting both reputation and the bottom line.

Advice to Management

Cull the ego centric, self focussed managers and work towards improving the Leidos brand name within Australia. Competitors look enticing and are winning more work away from Leidos. Rightly so.

Pros

- Supportive environment - Good work/life balance

Cons

- Lacks structure - Not enough development for a grad

Pros

EEO and graduate recruitment & some training.

Cons

Micro-management - Bullying & Nepotism. Consistently 25% +annual staff turn over, 120% operational areas. NO real career prospects. Lots of imposed celebrations but Silo organisation stymie grassroots collaboration & over-all team building.

Advice to Management

Move from MECHANISTIC to ORGANIC organisation. Replace managers with staff turn over greater than 20%, change your Executive team 10% per year.

Pros

Flexible workplace (10 - 4 core hours) Help veterans Comfort (good if you're about to retire and want a lazy wage)

Cons

Slow and boring - bureaucratic Lazy freeloaders all over but won't be fired because it's a safe job Ridiculous diversity pandering

Advice to Management

branch out of defence, sort out the merger stuff (its been 2 years already), tell hr to stop pushing their silly agenda and retain people.