EDS UK Reviews in London, UK Area

Pros

It's people, learning newish technologies. Good medical and pension schemes.

Cons

No payrise in two years! No bonuses. Rare to be able to attend a training course. Low Morale.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the separate organisations, i.e. GTP and DITO. Staff want to feel part of the project they're working for. Sometimes you don't even feel you work for EDS! Morale is extremely low within these organisations. These organisations might be making a big profit but this is at a large expense to the projects.

Pros

EDS have a lot of high profile clients and it is a good place to learn the basics.

Cons

EDS is a company full of empty suits. Many employees were TUPE'd in from outsourcing deals eons ago and have failed to adapt to the modern business environment. Most of the empty suits would cost the price of a house in the midlands to make redundant so EDS creates "work" for them. The non-jobs get in the way of doing actual work and providing what the client needs.

Throughout my two stints at EDS I was also constantly surprised and appalled by the abject stupidity of many of the middle managers. I also witnessed some of the worst cases of work place bullying that I have ever seen in a fifteen year carreer.

As a technologist the work environment is particularly poor. EDS as a company has no respect for technologists and there is no place for dedicated, experienced engineers who are prepared to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy in-rer to add value to the client. Management prefer to hire incompetent yes-men and bully the brave few who stand up to be counted.

Advice to Senior Management

Make at least half of the work force redundant and hire new talent from the outside. Particular attention should be focused on eliminating the non-jobs and pointless bureaucracy.

In addition a new culture of engineering-led excellence would go a long way towards winning back some of your lost accountsand gaining a few new solid customers.

Pros

There are some great projects to work and the sense of satisfaction of working on them can be great. The pension and benefits scheme are rather good.

Cons

Project Management seem to the bane of all companies and the same applies to EDS. I have seen staff move from Administrative jobs into Project Management at the click of your fingers. It seems that if you can send emails you are qualified to be a Project Manager. Working for a large company has its downsides, it is very easy to be just a number in a large machine and there seems to be a lot of inept middle managers. The use of offshore resources does nothing for moral and does not fill the gap left from the recent redundancies.

Advice to Senior Management

EDS is a technology company. Pay some attention to the technical staff.

Pros

They have a very varied range of work, and the clients are pretty high profile. It is impressive to others when you tell them the people you have worked for.

Because the management is so poor, you won't have a structured devlopment path, so you an pretty much end up working anywhere you want in the company.

Cons

Salary is pretty poor, and management is poor. As i mentioned, the best reason to work here is to get the expereince on your cv, and then perhaps move on to a better paying and better managed company.

Advice to Senior Management

Appreciate your staff more. And stop all this cost cutting - it is really destroying moral in the company.

Pros

Interview process, generally, is very slack and dismissal for incompetence is unheard of. Therefore, if you are fundamentally inadequate for the role but able to pull the wool over their eyes for 20mins you will land yourself a good job for life

Cons

Salaries often have no connection with experience, skill or contribution.
Employee development investment first to be cut out the budget (an annual occurrence)
Middle management has no decision making powers, unable to direct recourse and investment effectively.
Two classes of employees: The management and the shop floor worker - a belief that management and sales makes the company while the people who make the solutions are just 'head count'.

Advice to Senior Management

For a company whose only assets are its people EDS treats them dismally.
EDS could be a great company. It has some hugely profitable government contracts but it squanders millions on short term fixes rather than long-term investment in its people, many of which have much potential but will go on to work for a competitor.

Pros

Its very close to where i live so i can walk to work

Cons

Just about everything imaginable - never ever take a promotion if you work for eds as you wont ever get an extra penny. I "moved up" with in the organisation and after 4 years of pleading, begging, threatening, anything i could think of I still never got 1 extra penny for my efforts. In fact I didnt get a pay rise at all for nearly 3 years which i found out was pretty common. Most of the good people have left now, just people like me with altanative reasons for staying are still here. (My reason being I can walk to work).

Advice to Senior Management

Stop getting rid of the people on the front line and get rid of the middle management