CSC Reviews in India

Pros

If you wish enjoy life without any improvement (e/x if you are settled), then CSC can be good option.

If you expect Salary hike every year, good project assignment , no work politics then CSC is NOT the right place.

Esp, if you happen to join Covansys projects, then expect even worse.

Cons

> Less (/Moderate) Salary
> Expect work politics
> Poor work location (MEPZ & PKT)

Advice to Senior Management

No advice can help you. Unless the management wishes to change themselves from Corrupt to good :-(

Pros

was offered a competitive salary while joining CSC

Cons

CSC should not have hired people unless they are sure they have projects. Many of my colleagues have been asked to leave the organisation, stating the same reason.
Very strict on maintaining 9.5 hours. They deducted my salary for 15 days because I did not maintain the required hours.

Advice to Senior Management

Please dont hire people unless they are actually required and jeopardise their career!

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All Projects mostly use outdated technologies.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 woring envirornment. Provide many facilities.

Cons

New employee are assigned randomly jusy like gambling.

Advice to Senior Management

Assign the employee accourding to the skills. Set some standard.

Pros

Large orgnization, so have lots of opporutniites to scale up.
For the same CTC, there are lots of tax benifit breakup so the take home is higher

Cons

Weak promotion/hike policy.
Even the best performers will not get a product company like compensation.
Not so great managers above you.

Advice to Senior Management

Change the way promotoions or hike is given. Don't have a strict "number of years" as a prerequisite to get qualified for a promotion.

Pros

1. Good inter-personal relationship among team-members promoted
2. Good individual growth plan for people who want to be on the management side.
3. Dedicated Individual Development Plan for each individual and good trainings were promoted.
4. Almost fair treatment of all employees in terms of onsite, promotion, etc.
5. Overall cohesiveness across all departments

Cons

1. After CSC US acquired Covansys, the top management of CSC India was almost replaced by Covansys top management.
2. The quality of talent which was great at around 2002-2005 deteriorated in a rapid pace.
3. Lack of technology growth
4. Too much dependency CSC US, UK counterparts who are in direct contact with the clients.
5. Salary growths no longer lucrative.

Advice to Senior Management

1. Bring back the old talents and work-culture.
2. Give technology growth to people particularly who are interested.
3. Bid for clients directly

Pros

Overall Good. Nice compensation, Better empowerment of employee for work-life balance. Being a MNC, it has some good policies.

Cons

You will hate your job if you land up with a bad manager/client.
CSC needs to evolve on this aspect.
Plus, being so much process oriented, is quite an headache.
Plus, even if compensation is good, the salary structure can still be improved to save more tax.

Advice to Senior Management

CSC needs to promote team or client change.
Salary structure needs to be improved so that more tax can be saved.

Pros

1. A lot of information about most industries is available, provided your project is ready to give you time.
2. Excellent training material available on just about anything, provided your project is ready to pay for it.
3. Some good free training material also available on many subjects.
4. Some old IBMers are real gems in professionalism.
5. Somehow, the brand name still exists.
6. If you are in the higher management, you will most likely be taken care of.
7. Chances to do well if communcation skills are above par.
8. Did not sack too many during the economic downslide.
9. Did not cut salaries during the economic downslide.
10. For women, for now, this is a good organization because they don't usually mess with women and certain facilities like cabs on late stay, prefernce on working from home, etc are available exclusively for women.

Cons

1. Technical skills are being sidelined.
2. Training is difficult to get aprroved because your project has to pay for it and that affects the profits for the project and the manager's commission.
3. The intranet is a wild world and simple searches usually do not work. You may search for a cab in Mumbai and they'll point you to one in Shanghai.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't bank on your size. Look at the sizable banks for inspiration.
2. Stop being arrogant. The programmer's hard work gets you your bread. They are not indebted to you. Stop abusing their positive attitude.
3. Invest in your employees, especially training.

Pros

Cant think of any .You get to try your hands on different technologies

Cons

No employee benefits.Impossible to get a promotion.Salary is rock bottom and you hardly get a raise.There is no graded salary system.

Advice to Senior Management

Remember you guys are nothing without the lower level employees

Pros

Pay is very good and tax benefits are good.
Good facilities like gym, weekly doctor checkups, gives loans for buying car, computer etc.,

Cons

Don't work on latest technologies.
Always tasks are very repetitive.
Doesn't use employees fully of their abilities.
Often it takes lot of time for bringing a resource on board.
Not sure where we are heading after recent integration.
If you are a fresher joining CSC, you might know least about process , some times you may end up doing not technical work.

Advice to Senior Management

Utilize your middle level management as managers rather than just techies.
Do SWOT analysis of your resources.