Time will tell - Anonymous employee Leidos Employee Review

2.0
11 Nov 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Generally highly qualified and intelligent staff - a pleasure to work with. Flexible hours are a plus if you want them. Benefits are on par with the industry (whatever that is - Leidos gets lumped with other similar large broad-based consulting firms even though they aren't all that comparable). Decent corporate concern for work/life ballance, although the pressure to maintain billability conflicts with that at times.

Cons

Substantive training for job enhancement is virtually impossible to get approved, or if it is, most of the time involved is on the employee, not the company. Only a few "high flyers" get training and opportunities to interact with management, but it is hard to see much benefit for the employee pool as a whole. The company has gone downhill since I started in 2007. What used to be an upbeat team is now hunkered down waiting to see what will happen after Leidos split from SAIC. The combined company was a hodge-podge of businesses, many with very little in common with each other, and Leidos still is to some extent after the split. A new CEO has a chance to sort things out and looks promising, but no one knows what bits are going to get trimmed, so the uncertainty weighs heavily on morale.

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5.0
4 Jun 2026
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Pros

Pay, Work flexibility, PTO, Flexible time bank, floating holidays

Cons

The way they PTO is kinda weird now where you essentially have to make up the hours to took PTO or something like that? It’s weird but it’s a recent change.

3.0
27 May 2026
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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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