CSC Reviews

Current Employee – been working at CSC full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Strong client base, global foot print in 80+ countries, new c level management focused on turnaround, high employee loyalty

Cons – Moving as many jobs to India as possible, reducing salaries and benefits, new management places no value on existing managers or employees, poor systems, no investment in training

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at CSC full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – A legacy of IT capability primarily in the Federal Sector.

Cons – New leadership is implementing every conceivable cost cutting and short term control measure to prop up the stock price prior to sell.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at CSC full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – A strong and caring staff exists below the level of vice president. Compensation was fair. Strong efforts are made to interact with client base.

Cons – Sr, management does not listen to client base. Company is in a constant phase of change which confuses clients and clients. Vice presidents sit back and look to advance due to the hard work of employees reporting to them but do not give the employees any credit. Constantly called into meetings.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your clients. Stop the constant meetings and have vp's prepare their own presentations rather then depending upon personnel who receive no credit

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at CSC part-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The potential is there if things change.

Cons – The management is horrible. It is run by a "good ol' boy" network and the only way management manages is by personality. Management is more concerned self protection from "the mothership" CSC (a quote frequently heard on the management team phone calls) then meeting client commitments (which they frequently don't do). This in addition to the lack of skill building with their homegrown management staff has created an environment where innovation, creativity and client commitment is absent. Clients are leaving in droves and so are employees. The turn over, especially within the Flood group is so high management is openly acknowledging they will not meet commitments.

Advice to Senior Management – Management needs to look inward and stop blaming the CSC buy out and forced reorg's for failures within their own teams.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at CSC as a contractor for more than 3 years

Pros – It was just a pay check.

Cons – 1. No opportunity for advancement. 2. Not enough challenges. 3. No opportunity for more responsibility. 4. Some supervisors were disrespectful in front of colleagues. 5. Would not provide honest job performance feedback when asked. 6. To much on the job politics.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire some professional managers and supervisors that care about employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at CSC full-time for more than a year

Pros – Employees can work remotely from home.

Cons – Management is disconnected. The reorganization going on is a tired model that other companies, i.e. HP, EMC, Cisco have used and well failed. Well CSC hired the failed senior management from these companies. Hi performers, industry respected people are demoted, downsized, go looking for other jobs. Mediocre staff that run projects red, lose large accounts are promoted. There are favorites who can not do the work, tell the client "I don't know what anyone is working on" when they are the lead. CSC does not know what a PMO is nor what is a project manager. The SE's and AE's run the show and give away the company talent as free work to the customer, then blame the company talent for not generating revenue. The work load does not scale to the resources available with a SA finding he needs to work 24x7 to just status quo. They play really dirty politics. They are off shoring everything at a time when companies are bringing work back. They are affecting stock price by laying off purely based on salary ranges. They play games by telling the A players they are off a project and then put a C player on the project, let the project run red and lose the project to another vendor. The people with talent, the A players are leaving and this is becoming a C-player company.

Advice to Senior Management – Be honest. Recognize your talent. Respect you people. Learn team work. Learn collaboration. Give raises once in 5 years.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at CSC full-time

Pros – Good overall compensation and work/life balance. There are occasional pockets of high talent, but they don't last for long in this political environment. Mike Lawrie's changes to the company have been enormous, but not nearly enough.

Cons – 30 year CSC veterans who are over-compensated and under performing. This leads to a highly political environment where credit for any growth or achievement is quickly grabbed by the inside players in DC. The top-down transformation has left most of these under performers in place, while many of the high-talent next generation leaders have left.

Advice to Senior Management – The transformation should have started with the stars in client delivery and program management, not the corporate Presidents who led the company to the pre-Lawrie precipice. Many of the key leaders who led CSC to where it is are still in place, but the top performing staff are leaving in droves. Arrogant statements by senior leadership confirm that they remain just as out-of-touch as they were before.

Clients and high talent staff are unfortunately a distant consideration in this three ring circus of inside ball and political jockeying.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at CSC full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Numerous contracts which allowed employees to laterally transfer.

Cons – Managers will stab you in the back. Was pulled from my assignment and replaced behind my back. Upper management was told my government customer fired me for poor job performance. I was given no explination. My customer was told I was moving to another position within the company. Bottom line is I found a job with another company and got a job reference from my former customer.

Advice to Senior Management – Be honest

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at CSC full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – -Chance for a young person to do almost anything
-Stock price has been going up

Cons – -No longer a place to make a career. Advice to the new graduate. Get some experience and move on.
-Health care benefits are over priced.
-Forced vacation - even if you need to hold on to the vacation
-Nickle and diming on all benefits
-Customers are angry the deadlines continue to be missed

Advice to Senior Management – Wake up. This company is heading down the tubes and employees are bailing when possible. You have fired great people. Now I'm firing CSC at the first opportunity.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at CSC full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – the learning to get your series 6 for a new job

Cons – lay off a lot in the last 5 yrs

Advice to Senior Management – has been doc with hr that they do show favoritism and promote those who are friends

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company