DST Systems Reviews

Current Employee – been working at DST Systems full-time for less than a year

Pros – Career growth in certain departments

Cons – Not enough resources, subpar co-workers,

Advice to Senior Management – Communications among departs needs improvements

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at DST Systems full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great work environment and work lif e balance, employees are great and fun to work with. Great partiesare held and great bonus pools.

Cons – Government COntracting environment is unstable. Great work environment and work lif e balance, employees are great and fun to work with. Great partiesare held and great bonus pools.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at DST Systems full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great way to gain experience and resume builder

Cons – Compensation could be better, but not to bad.

Current Employee – been working at DST Systems full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good work environment, good co-workers

Cons – A company that is in transition

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to work on employee engagement.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at DST Systems

Pros – Stability, strength in market, opportunities for advancement

Cons – Old school policies, needs more innovation

Advice to Senior Management – N/A

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at DST Systems

Pros – Good Benefits, Management very approachable, Opportunities to Develop Professionally with online training programs, Good relationship with the local community and the arts

Cons – Low salaries, Not always very exciting work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at DST Systems

Pros – DST is a great company to work for, they provide excellent benefits. The pay is competitive but not comparative with similar industry salaries. The biggest pro about DST is that you make your own path at DST. If you are dissatisfied with what you are doing the ability to move with in the company to a similar position or completely new career field is available at your finger tips.

Cons – Telecommuting has been a major jump in recent years in technology. This is something I believe DST could benefit from, letting employees work from home.

Like I said above the salaries are competitive but not comparative in the field I work in. I have seen several similar positions where the pay was much higher.

Advice to Senior Management – I have heard recently that several employees have posted to different positions only to find that they have been filled with targeted employees. If a managers have targeted employees they should not post a position as if it is available to everyone.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at DST Systems

Pros – 1) Excellent benefits package
2) ability to move within the DST family of companies among many types of groups
3) though we get hit with recessions too, client contract structures usually help us weather them a bit better.

Cons – 1) in 2010 DST had its first large scale layoffs ever. This used to be its one shining feature that made it better than other local companies like Sprint, Cerner and Garmin. Now, it's lost bragging rights.
2) Management communicates well on day to day issues but employees 'disappear' mysteriously, only for us to find out later they have been laid off. There is no communication on the day of admitting that there were X cuts in Y department or when more are coming. This is duplicitous.

Advice to Senior Management – 1) We have one company product that is not competitive and the company knows it. Put the R&D into making it as competetive as our other products.
2) Your layoff practices feel like mafia hits. Everyone knows people got laid off. Be honest after they are gone. Preserve the dignity of those terminated but come on; don't treat the rest of us like we're stupid and won't notice.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at DST Systems

Pros – The groups I worked with was very good and very positive. Provided support for Vision website for finacial brokers. Great location, great benefits.

Cons – Not a whole lot of upside or opportunities for promotion. Starting salaries were below industry standard so even after promotion you would be worse off than working for other companies in town such as Sprint or American Century.

Advice to Senior Management – DST is a very conservative company, and this has been a large part of their success. Very proud of DST's investment and love for downtown Kansas City. I would open up more conversation with front line employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at DST Systems

Pros – Conservative company that is very stead. Never had layoffs till this last year. Great benefits though some people experience trouble advancing.

Cons – Some associates experience trouble advancing with career; generally tenure is judge more important than aptitude. Salary not comparable to similar employers.

Advice to Senior Management – Versus lip service to how employees are valued, make some moves forward with new options for employees versus the one size fits all.