A typical day in the life at Leidos varies depending on your role! See below how your day can go working for Leidos as a grad.
Grace’s typical DITL at Leidos:
In my area of work no day is the same and with the pandemic over the last two years, days have been very different, but Leidos is very flexible. At the moment, I'm working from home. My typical day is logging in, getting in on our daily stand-up, talking to my team and catching-up with them, and then I do work.
For me, that can be anywhere between business strategy or what's going on in politics. Sometimes, I write memos. Other times, I'll have committee meetings for women's and allied groups. Sometimes I'll have a one-on-one or a mentoring session. It's a really great balance of everything that contributes to greater work output. I typically start 8 or 8:30 and log off at 4 or 4:30. It's nice and very flexible.
Jarrod’s typical DITL at Leidos:
I've been in the office the entire time I've been working here due to the nature of my team's work. We're all in person all the time which has been good for our collaboration. The thing that works for me is that our environment is the same. We're in the same place everyday, but the work is always changing which is what I like. I come in and I'm constantly picking up new work. The flexibility is great. I'll have weeks where I'm motivated and get in at work 7 and get off at 3. Some days, it's a bit of a slow morning and you can roll in at 9 or 10. You can plan your week and make up some time here or leave early there. My team's busy and we don't do tons of meetings. We have our stand-ups and then sit around each other working off each other.
Richard’s typical DITL at Leidos:
It's a bit different for me as I progressed through different teams and changed responsibilities. At the moment, the typical day for me depends on what time I decide to wake up. We're in a bit of a transition right now between lockdown and heading back to work. Hours are flexible and don't require you to wake up as early as it would be to do your morning commute. It depends on your team and your WFH arrangement. For us, we've been doing remote work for two years now and we've seen great improvements in productivity. Basically a day in the life is you wake up, log on, check emails, respond to them, look at my Jira board, catch-up with the rest of the team, and then busy work followed by the daily stand-up where we discuss what we did yesterday and what we'll do today as well as checking what I can do to help the team, then I sit down and do a few code reviews from the review column on the Jira board. Then, I jump into a few customer meetings here and there and that's pretty much the day.
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