Leidos Australia
Graduate Software Engineering Virtual Experience
Australia, Online/remote
The Virtual Experience should take 2-3 hours to complete, and consists of a number of mini-projects resembling real work scenarios, designed to test and develop your professional skills. As you complete the modules you will unlock model answers, allowing you to assess your performance in real-time. This Virtual Experience is a great way of seeing if Software Engineering at Leidos Australia is a good fit for you. The program is free, and can be completed in your own time, from anywhere!
What is this?
Hello and welcome to Leidos!
Today you will be joining one of our teams as a Mission-Critical Graduate Software Engineer.
Graduate Software Engineers at Leidos collaborate as part of a team, developing tailored mission-critical applications and capabilities for Defence and various other Australian government agencies such as the Bureau of Meteorology, the Department of Home Affairs and the Australian Taxation Office.
The creation of these custom tools is often time-sensitive due to their strategic importance and meeting customer requirements is integral to their success.
At Leidos, our software teams employ Agile methodologies. During the course of this experience, we will presume that you are working in a team employing the Scrum methodology.
Why should you do this?
This Virtual Experience Program is self-paced and should take only 3 to 4 hours to complete.
This Virtual Experience Program is free for all students.
When you complete the Virtual Experience Program, you’ll earn a digital badge and certificate you can share on Linkedin and include on your resume.
Throughout the program, you’ll learn and develop deep insights into what it is actually like to work as a software engineer at Leidos Australia. Apply your software engineering knowledge to a real-world problem & gain practical experience and knowledge to draw upon in interviews.
What skills will I gain?
Collaborating with your team to expand task understanding for the next iteration of the application.
Updating a piece of functionality within the application that is not performing as expected.
Responding to team member feedback on the task completed.
What you will do?
Module 1: Sprint planning (1 - 1.5 hours)
This module focuses on the process of demystifying, refining and assigning tasks to be completed during the sprint. In this module as a Mission-Critical Software Engineer your role is to help estimate and prioritise tickets.
Module 2: Software Development (45 minutes - 1.5 hours)
This module focuses on the implementation of a ticket that you are tasked to complete. During this module you will be working on the ticket you assigned effort points to in the previous module.
Module 3: Task Review (30 minutes - 1 hour)
This module focuses on the process of responding and actioning feedback. During this module you will be responding to the feedback provided to you by your peers about the task completed in the previous module.
Ready to get started?
Click Register to begin.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- IT & Computer Science +more
Reviews
Writing software, reviewing code changes, working with system services. Meetings, coffee, and free food occasionally.
As a systems engineer i am tasked with implementing engineering changes to consistent faults that occur within the systems that we look after. My role is very hands on and involves fault-finding and maintenance activities to ensure the systems are functional.
I really love that the large majority of my days are spent on development, with minimal meetings each week. Although the days can become repetitive, generally the work is satisfying.
About the employer
Leidos Australia
4.3
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Defence & Aerospace
Our mission is to Protect, and Advance the Australian way of Life and we do this through our work in Air, Defence, Intel and Cyber.
Pros and cons of working at Leidos Australia
Pros
Working arrangements are very flexible, I'm allowed to be autonomous in my work, and I feel that my contributions make an impact.
The culture is great... everyone gets along and works together well... we often do social things outside of work.
Extremely great at helping young starters improve their skills and gain the confidence to contribute to large projects.
Pretty good work-life balance, people are very understanding of personal commitments and are flexible around them.
You get to work on really cool projects that have a direct impact on the customer.
Cons
Too many meetings. Lots of jargon that is difficult to pick up initially.
Sometimes you can get bogged down in the paperwork and less on the fixing/designing new things however it's the same at every job.
Some meetings are unnecessary.
There's also not as much work-from-home flexibility, and high-security requirements can also be frustrating.
It doesn't seem very clear [what it takes to move up the ranks.