Leidos Jr. Software Developer reviews

Upper management frequently tried to micromanage. The people acting as your managers (scrum masters, to be specific) don't have any idea what's actually happening. I am strongly against bloating managerial infrasturcture, and their idea of "agile" is slow as a turtle when it comes to change. You might as well call it "short term two-week waterfall" - it's bad. When the scrum masters don't call for 10 hours of meetings per week, work is done - and it's great. The problem: that only happens once a month, at most. Twice a year evaluations. Raises are given out like clockwork. Flat percentage, doesn't matter if you performed 120% for 6 months or if you performed at 75% for 6 months. If your boss thinks you don't deserved to get fired, you get a raise. The problem is that your raise is the same % as everyone else around you. It's not truly performance based. This also means there's no promotions. The only way to get promoted is to apply for another job within the company using the internal system to refer yourself.

There are a lot of not so great aspects to Leidos. The team I was working on, was loaned to another team during coronavirus, and that team in turn was a mess. They had at a minimum, 2 "daily standups" that would drag on for about an hour. I was also promised by HR, in official emails, that I would be part time initially but go full time once I arrived onsite. This did not happen, if you're interviewing there and they pull this on you do not accept it, make sure it's in your contract.