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      Leidos

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      Leidos reviews

      3.8

      76% would recommend to a friend

      (5,081 total reviews)
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      Tom Bell

      86% approve of CEO

      70% positive business outlook

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      Leidos has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,081 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 Aeroespacial y defensa industry (3.6 stars).

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      5K reviews
      1.0
      Jan 19, 2017

      Portfolio Manager

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      Pros

      Due to the large contracts there are opportunities.

      Cons

      Cut throat consulting environment. There is a constant struggle of staff to keep coverage. If you should lose coverage you are instantly cut. As a manager I was in better position but there is a strong push to constantly chop staff.

      4.0
      Sep 3, 2016

      Intense brainpower and interesting work but chasing government contracts is tough

      Project manager
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      Pros

      Leidos is the "science" half of Science Applications International Corp (SAIC), when SAIC split into two companies. If you are a scientist or highly technical engineer looking for intense challenges and smart coworkers, look at Leidos first -- the other, less science-intense half kept the name SAIC, so don't be misled. I worked there for a decade and enjoyed almost all of it. Got to work on heavy scientific topics that I wouldn't have been able to do elsewhere -- at other companies the really fun science gets done by the few eminent PhDs, leaving crumbs for everyone else. At Leidos my experience was usually plenty of science. Sometimes more than I could handle. Projects are ambitious and challenging.

      Cons

      Chasing government contracts is a real drag. Bureaucracy of govt funding is getting worse, funding $$ drying up, and you wind up hunting for charge numbers to work for. Turns into a stressful drudgery after a while -- it can be hard to concentrate on your current contract while continually worrying about the next one. Job security is only as solid as that next contract. Work can be stressful, certainly is more than 40 hours a week. Tight deadlines can lead to lots of overtime.

      2.0
      Aug 22, 2016

      Losing their edge

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Reasonable work life balance - immediate supervisors are good folks to work with pay is OK

      Cons

      Most positions are period of performance (POP) meaning if the contract is lost you lose your job; no bench and a very passive re-assignment search staff meaning you have to find your next job pretty much by yourself and almost every job now requires TS/SCI . with Poly which is not something you can get or Leidos will provide - they do not grow their employees into a next job or career path. Plus if you work on the customer site you are quickly forgotten by middle and senior management. They have another merger going on which will make things worse in the short term.

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