Electronic Data Systems Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – Pay and benefits are very reasonable

Cons – This place is literally modern-day slavery on American soil. The culture and business model appears to be to bring in labor from off-shore and work people to death under threat of deportation. At one point, my whole team was made to stay until 9:30pm for an upcoming "meeting", at which time we were corralled into a room and told our project was behind and we were all going to start working 12-14 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is one example of many instances of mistreatment, and the project was mismanaged terribly. Upon quitting, I was not paid for my last several days of work. This culture started before EDS bought out Saber Corp and continued uninterrupted, but hopefully one day EDS will recognize the issues and clean this place up.

Advice to Senior Management – In a completely anonymous survey, ask your employees for feedback so that you can begin to understand what is going on in your company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – - The people there are very nice.

Cons – - Very poor work life balance
- Doing 5 people's jobs when only getting paid for one
- Did not train at all when you are first hired or after.
- No employee orientation when you are first hired.
- No opportunity for career advancement and growth.
- Work overtime a lot on nights and weekends.
- Very stressful work enviornment.
- Paychecks kept decreasing.
- They shove something at you to complete when you are not trained at all on the subject.
- They fire people for no reason at all. I have seen it happen to a few people that I worked with.

Advice to Senior Management – Look at my cons and improve on all of them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – Big organization provides options to move around locations

Cons – They prefer contractors to bring cost down. Contractors mostly underperform and get away with it

Advice to Senior Management – Please focus on value to clients not just on cost cutting

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – Great co-workers that help you when needed and understand and help with your frustration at work. Service juggernaut that had large accounts which meant there was plenty of work.

Cons – Frustrating compensation and promotion hurdles. Plenty of work meant that you were doing more than plenty of work. Work life balancing act was difficult.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay more attention to your people managers and whether they use nepotism in picking and choosing employees for promotions and opportunities.

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – Coworkers were always the redeeming feature of the account. There were a few duds but many were extremely sharp, and willing to help coworkers learn.

Cons – Same gripes as every other EDS account on the planet: below market pay, massive amounts of unpaid overtime, no training or tuition reimbursement, no time for learning or keeping technical skills current due to understaffing and excessive workloads, miserly raises and bonuses, lots of earned vacation and manager-mandated vacation freezes, and the constant threat of losing your job whenever EDS thinks it's cheaper to cut workers than reduce executive bonuses.

Advice to Senior Management – None, these are longstanding problems for EDS and HP both and the execs would have resolved them long ago if they considered these half as important as stock prices.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – My team was moved from Symantec to EDS a year ago. I suppose the pro would be that I still work with many of them, and they're great people.

Cons – There is nobody around me who works for EDS who isn't completely demoralized. The company has delivered pay cut after pay cut (some in excess of 30%). Some of us have literally been told that now matter how we perform, we will be getting more pay cuts next year. Also, for an IT services company, wading through EDS's IT is like pulling teeth; it lierally takes me days every time I need to figure out how to do something like signing up for benefits online. Some of us haven't even been told what our job titles are.

And since being bought out by HP, it has only gotten worse.

In short, there is nobody who works within 50 feet of me who are not (sometimes desperately) looking for another job. Avoid this company at all costs.

Advice to Senior Management – Why would I give feedback to the leadership? It is clear that they either don't listen to us or don't care.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – Some intelligent hard-working people that are fun to work with.

Demand for services from HP/EDS likely to increase as companies continue to out-source.

A lot of potential for the company to do great things once the obliteration o f EDS by HP is completed

Cons – Very disorganized due to absorption of EDS into HP – a lot of conflicting direction coming from different levels in management

for an IT services company their internal IT is terrible

a tendency to “spin” their communications instead of just stating what they mean.

Travel restricted, training dollars non-existent.

A lot of time is wasted on lame training that has no professional value.

Advice to Senior Management – Concentrate on making employees your collaborators instead of current practice of making them adversaries. Employees are not children to be cared for; they are intelligent individuals that understand the business environment and want to succeed.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – People I work are excellent. The client is also enjoyable to work for but is having doubts we can deliver with the bad morale and layoffs.

Cons – Constant Layoffs
Pay Cuts
Falling morale
Benefits declining

Advice to Senior Management – This is a service business and over time your current practices will come back to haunt you. EDS was once a great place to work for but it is no more.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – There is very little good to say about EDS these days. EDS was once was a company that I was very proud to work for, but now it is just a paycheck until I find something better.

Cons – Our pay has become stagnant, as well as out ability to move to different organizations within the company. Management has become numb to our concerns & just gives us the same canned answer day after day... "If you don't like it, feel free to leave."

Advice to Senior Management – it is time to stop worrying about the investors & start worrying about the employees. Great employees will take care of the investors, but not if they all leave for greener pastures.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – The workload is fairly light in some groups, allowing time for studying and preparing for future employment. Of course there isn't any training budget, but if you're motivated you can find the training you need.

Cons – I thought things were bad before, but now that we're owned by HP it's gotten even worse. All benefits have been trimmed -- there isn't even money for office supplies. A couple of months ago, there were modest, company-wide pay cuts. Now as part of a Job Code Integration process, some of us are losing an additional 20% (or more) from our salaries.

Advice to Senior Management – All those "motivational" memos and town hall meetings really don't motivate your employees. What motivates us is being treated like intelligent human beings and being fairly compensated.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend