CSC Reviews

Pros

The employees are good, and talented, people. There are also a lot of different opportunities if you are willing to travel.

Cons

To move up in the company you need to be in either Account Management and willing to move on a continual basis or live in the Falls Church VA area.

Advice to Senior Management

Develope a comprehenisve understanding on your different goals by individual leaders and coordinate them so you don't have mutliple responsbilities being held by multiple organizatons. The strength of an organization is politically basded and not performanced based.

Pros

Sit Idle
No Work Pressure
OK Salary
Own your Car/Computer benefit and other benefits
Domain Knowledge Training
Laid Back Environment
Friendly Environment
Friendly HR

Cons

No Real Good Projects in Finance Domain.
You sit idle for months waiting to get allocated in a project. Even if you do, the work is horrible and the project duration is for a few months.
Allocated Project Randomly, totally ridiculous process.
Don't bet to get a project using technologies for which you were hired for.
All Projects mostly use outdated technologies.

If you love to work and want to work on the best projects and technologies, SKIP CSC.
Managers are like kings, butter them to succeed. Your hard work are a waste of time.
Complete Mismanagement and Chaos in CSC Noida DLF IT Park Campus.

You won't get your system or a place to sit, before a month or two. You'll be thrown around sittiing and using another person's system who are absent for that day. You get CRT and system with 1 GB RAM. IT department frowns if you want more RAM or a TFT screen. I mean come on...

Advice to Senior Management

"Most Admired Place To Work For" - What a big Joke!

Get your act together for CSC India. It's one of your biggest development centers with
nearly 20k people. Get some good projects and quality work.
Don't hire blindly... get some really skillful guys.
Revamp the work culture... get people who love to work... not who love to sit idle and draw huge salaries...

Please change for the better!!!

Pros

Good pay and good benefits plan

Cons

Management sees confused sometimes as to what type o f company they want to be with so many product lines .

Advice to Senior Management

Decide what type of company they want to be and focus the attention & resources there ,

Pros

CSC Is one of the top outsourcing company. It has a good reputation. Learning opportunities in
Project & Program Management, Training & Development are immense. Has a diverse culture.

Cons

Since it is a heavily matrix organization, one can expect to have multiple bosses and sometimes may get into conflicting priorities.

Advice to Senior Management

Ensure that great talent is not lost due to short term actions because of downturn in the economy. It would be nice to see an outsider replacing Mike Laphen as CEO, when he retires next year.

Pros

Pay was excellent, time off easy to come by.

Cons

Management was clueless for the most part.

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate with your people.

Pros

Pros: Strong company with outstanding ethics (at the Corporate office)

Cons

Cons: Not easy for a person without a degree to get a promotion. Even with the skills and years of experience required - if they don't have a degree they can forget about moving forward within the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Ease up on the old school style of management, allow a more casual dress code (especially on Fridays) and come off a few bucks to treat employees to a luncheon or two during the course of the year. It's the little things that do wonders for morale!

Pros

Some great people.
Pretty good salary.

Cons

Atmosphere of favortism regardless of work.
Too much form over substance.
Too many reports and processes that detract from actual work to do.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to HAVE better work life balance not just talk about it. Also, manage on a person by person basis -- not a herd mentality just because that is easier.

Pros

Colloaborative environment amongst my peers

Cons

Immediate manager was ok but overwhlemed. Company bit off more than it could chew for certain contracts . It committed to service levels it could not commit to in real life. This led to account losses and the ineveitable layoffs

Advice to Senior Management

"employees are our greatest asset" PLEASE!! Merely lip service.

Pros

The clients they work for like the Federal Government help with the salary. Lots of IT projects if you are in that field.

Cons

No paid time off if there is a birth in the family and all vacation and sick leave must be taken.

Advice to Senior Management

I would allow males one week of paid time off and females longer if there is a birth in the family. I think the company needs more culture. Take google or Zappos for example.

Pros

The people are smart, some of the best in the industry. The company is really loyal, I survived 3 major projects ending or getting cancelled and they always helped me get a new assignment or job within the company. They were very good with work-life balance. It is a very good organization for job stability.

Cons

That being said, they tend to pigeon hole people. They dont try to move you around to learn new things and help you advance.

Advice to Senior Management

Use the great people you have. Get them more training.