EDS Canada Reviews in Ottawa, ON Area

Pros

Great exposure to technology. It comes in slow, but you probablu don't get exposure in smaller organizations.
Overall, compensation is not bad, and the benefit package is pretty solid. In the past, career opportunities have been good, but not for the last 12 months. When the HP aquistion settles down, maybe things will improve again.

Cons

Job security is poor now that we have been purchased by HP. No one is safe. It's been tough for quite a while due to Off shoring of jobs, but it's getting worse. The company is laying off some it's brightest people based only on the client they support.

Advice to Senior Management

Everyday tasks are mired down in process. A 15 minute job now takes 16 hours of paperwork and meetings. If you want to talk cost reduction, here is where you look.

Pros

Exposure to interesting work with varied clients and varied environments.

Cons

Archaic and confused processes that work more to restrict the success of the employee and company than to ehance it. Too much time was spent working on things that did not generate revenue for the company or was used to justify the job of someone else. Not enough acknowledgement of the good work done by good people.

Advice to Senior Management

Reward the good people working for the company. Spend more time seeing what you can do for the troops instead of worrying about what needs to be done to make more money for shareholders.

Pros

some rates of pay are very good. the vacation schedule before being acquired by HP was generous. most managers are flexible with regards to time off or time away. the benefit package as given by EDS was on par with other companies in the industry. the work environment is comfortable. the technology given to complete your work is adequate. most of the people who work for EDS are friendly and outgoing. there are few bad apples. it is a very big company so i would assume for some there is the chance to move around within and do different jobs in other parts of the world.

Cons

formal training is not easy to come by. we are expected to wholly train on our own time with little to no support (technology workers) while sales and PM workers get paid working hours training easily. this doesn't seem to be translating into sales however. moral is very low while waiting for HP to complete laying off people. i do not see a lot of new work coming in to Canada, this is disconcerting, perhaps the unit will be sold off for medical experiments, to paraphrase Monty python. there is a corporate expectation to work overtime without compensation. there are many positions which manage other workers without recognition or reward.

Advice to Senior Management

get it over with and move on