EDS Canada Reviews

Pros

Excellent online resources made available to all employees. Management also didn't mind if we set aside time from our weekly schedules to make use of this opportunity.

Cons

Sluggish big company to work for. Especially when supporting the automotive industry in North America. There was little opportunity for growth (responsibility or pay).

Advice to Senior Management

The cost cutting that i experienced in terms of employee benefits and team building was extremely demoralizing to almost all employees. It seems as though you are actually losing previous team building investment.
I suggest a cheaper alternative instead of cancelling it all together.

Pros

Big company with lots of project so you may get chance to work on different different technologies

Cons

Company is not same as before after HP buyin. It is now less software company more of hardware company.

Advice to Senior Management

Company is not same as before after HP buyin. It is now less software company more of hardware company. Pls keep as old company

Pros

Good quality people, unfortunately, they are all leaving.
Employee Benefits although limited and declining
3 weeks vacation

Cons

No work life balance
No training
No career path
I feel like just an expense to be cut by management not a source of revenue generation
Constant pressure to perform or else

Advice to Senior Management

You cannot run a services company like a manufacturing company. I would like management to value it's employees not treat them like a cost to be cut.

Pros

Starting salary is competitive. Benefits are okay.

Cons

No salary increases. No job security. Management treats employees like children. Distrustful environment. No fun on the job. Flooded with EDS brainwashing messages: "Hip Hip Hooray EDS! EDS! EDS!".

Advice to Senior Management

They will take none, so what's the point? They don't feel guilty about what they do because they honestly feel their moves and action are for the better of the company. Only when employee satisfaction translates to dollars will they listen.

Pros

Used to have ability to work at different places, projects, different industries. Now, all of that is gone, unless you are willing to go to India, China.

Cons

Managed by paper-pushers. Negative selection promoted "yes-man". Managers totally disconnected from the business. Now it is ever worse as the company is being dismantled HP.

Advice to Senior Management

Go back to basic. People are really your best and only asset. Grow business, there is enough work for all us, including NA.

Pros

EDS takes people in and trains them for a job which most places do not. The reason EDS does this though is because they actually pay so low that they can't get anyone with experience. So good place to come and learn and then go for the money elsewhere.

Cons

Way too much management and they protect the dead wood in management. I have 5 supervisors in my team of 10. That is 2 people for every supervisor and I don't have a clue what they do. There is a team lead here that is sick one or more days a week, every week and has not trained or let anyone else know the job so that the office can continue.
Also the salary is 10,000.00 less than the average salary in Calgary for the same position. They have the idea that they can train anyone to do a helpdesk job or a desktop job so we have people with no skills at all answering the phone. this s reception not computer help!.

Advice to Senior Management

You get what you pay for. You do not make software you deal in people and there skills and bill them out way higher than you pay them. You will never succeed unless you realize your resource is the very people than you don't respect and pay according. Paying too much to management and not ensuring you have trained technical people is why you lose accounts

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

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

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

Pros

For some levels in Quebec, the overtime is paid...
Can work from home.
Lot of different line of business so lot of opportunity.

Cons

Might be too big... It's very long to change anything. (even small little things)
Leaders are not on the same planet... Sometime, they do non-sense things, and we can't argue. We are not soldiers, we're employees..

Advice to Senior Management

Changing some leaders would be a good idea...