DST Systems Reviews

I worked at DST Systems full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good system and some good people

Cons – Software is outdated and not being bought by many new clients

Advice to Senior Management – Stop playing 'fruit basket turnover' and get in new upper management.

I have been working at DST Systems full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good health benefits, pretty good pay, some flexibility in working hours.

Cons – Understaffed and poorly managed project teams, unrealistic expectations of workload and overtime. There's some hostility toward employees who have many years of experience and have been rewarded somewhat with higher pay and vacation time; they now seem to be regarded as liabilities rather than valued for their knowledge and experience.

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in enough staff to delivery quality products.

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

I have been working at DST Systems full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Steady pay check, they have done some building renovations that are nice.

Cons – Low pay, 10 years to promote, too much dead weight with tenure

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of the dead weight and pay the qualified associates what they are worth

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at DST Systems full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Decent benefits and work/life balance.

Cons – DST is looking for ways to save money, which includes laying off or firing more people. More emphasis is placed on getting the job done vs getting it done the right way, so people that get things done the wrong way are rewarded the same as people who get things done the right way.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay attention to how things are getting done and reward workers that do things the right way.

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

I worked at DST Systems full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Low level managers where cool , understood the BS and long hours and oncall that this company puts you through. Once you got past team leads it was all about getting screwed just so the upper mgnt looks good.

Cons – Long hours , oncall sucked , you might as well put a ball and chain on once its your turn. Low pay , very low pay, This company is out of touch with today's work force , they will screw you over and not think twice about how your quality of life is , there new CIO completely ruined the IT dept with his grand ideas of how a IT dept should be ran. Complete failure and they lost pretty much 90% of all the quality engineers do to his decisions. If you want to work 60+ hours a week and be oncall all the time , this company is for you . All I can say is RUN , just ask around , it is very well known in KC that this is not the place to work if you want to be in IT.

Advice to Senior Management – You should just quit and give this once great company a chance to rebound and be great like it was 10 years ago , you have failed miserably and your arrogance and incompetence GLOWS throughout the KC metropolitan area.

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

I worked at DST Systems full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Easy to get promoted
Benefits are good
Compensation is good once you are in management

Cons – Very political
Senior management will throw you under the bus
HR is brutal to work with if have issues
Company is slowly dying to to omnibus conversions by broker dealers since they get paid per account by their clients

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of the political favors and stop hiring your relatives in senior positions. Find some other line of business for the company because it is going to die a slow death due to omni conversions of broker dealer accounts.

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

I have been working at DST Systems

Pros – good people and pretty flexible to work

Cons – Long hours and not very good pay

I worked at DST Systems full-time for more than a year

Pros – - If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.
- If you're a professional looking for a company to stall your career growth at, this is the place for you!

Cons – Their 'open door' policy exists in name only. Treatment is uneven and arbitrary. Pay is below market. HR talks a good game as to how important employees are...but the reality is drastically different. The 'anonymous' employee surveys are not anonymous, nor do they care about truly improving the employee experience through them.

Advice to Senior Management – Enforcing written HR policies would be an excellent start. And the political climate within the company borders on ridiculous.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at DST Systems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – There are no pro's for this place

Cons – Everything from hours, pay, and upper management.

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

I have been working at DST Systems full-time for more than a year

Pros – It's a big company, that's IT centric (for the most part). So you will get a lot of exposure to high end technology and a lot of great experience.

Cons – DST is your stereotypical corporate environment. Managers are the "haves" and everyone else are the "have not’s". Employees get worked like slaves, required overtime, poor treatment, and really just no consideration or professionalism when it comes to employees and how they are treated (from a career deveopment perspective). Management is seen as a huge boys club. Filled with middle aged men who have been there forever and are in the know, versus actually being competent at their jobs. The CIO seems like he really wants to change things, but he is hampered by old and out of touch senior leadership, who are more interested in protecting their fiefdoms then improving the way DST operates.

Advice to Senior Management – You seem to distrust your employees, so you don't promote or develop them. You don't hold everyone equally accountable or properly train new employess.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend