THE WORST company I've ever experienced - Anonymous employee Leidos Employee Review

1.0
Jun 13, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The biggest pro will be the day I leave this awful, careless company, which I am working on as we speak.

Cons

I am wondering who writes these positive reviews for Leidos, because the stuff I am witnessing is simply awful. If I could give this place zero or negative stars, I would. The management of this company is simply the worst. I work in a corporate overhead role and this is where the management layers are so bloated with incompetence, it's unreal. Managers continually mistreat employees, outright lie to them about many things including career opportunities, send the competent employees out the door, and every manager I encountered so far amounts to a sleazy backstabber. The executives are hired on the "good ol' boy" club basis. Then I see this article in the Washington Business Journal about the CEO basically lining his pockets while the worker bees get minimal or no raises and continuously decreasing benefits. Search for "This government contracting executive’s pay has jumped 67 percent in four years" and you can read it yourself. Deplorable!

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Pros

Great culture, supportive management, encouragement for self development

Cons

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Pros

Leidos provides opportunities to work on complex government programs with meaningful technical challenges. Depending on the contract and team, there can be exposure to cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, systems engineering, networking, and mission-focused work that is difficult to find elsewhere. The company also has a large footprint, so there may be internal opportunities for people who are able to navigate the organization.

Cons

My experience was that the quality of management varied significantly by program. Communication around expectations, roles, and priorities was often inconsistent, and decisions that affected employees were not always explained clearly or handled in a transparent way. Work-life balance also depended heavily on local management. Flexibility that existed in practice could be changed quickly, and employees were sometimes left trying to reconcile changing expectations with existing workloads and personal obligations. In my view, the company would benefit from stronger oversight of program-level management decisions, especially where employee responsibilities, workplace flexibility, and performance feedback are concerned. I also found that technical decision-making was sometimes driven more by schedule pressure than by sound engineering judgment. On complex government programs, that can create unnecessary risk and frustration for employees who are trying to do things correctly.

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