Electronic Data Systems Reviews

Pros

nice facility, professional team, good resource and support from team.

Cons

compensation is not good. Barely pay increas to cover inflation.

Advice to Senior Management

wrong decision to sale company to hp.

Pros

Most of the employees are easy to get along with.

Cons

Big disparity in salaries and promotions are not really based on performance.

Pros

good company, great and wonderfulcompany
nice people
good history

Cons

more $$$
more time off
more bonuses

Advice to Senior Management

don't sell

Pros

Pay and benefits are very reasonable

Cons

This place is literally modern-day slavery on American soil. The culture and business model appears to be to bring in labor from off-shore and work people to death under threat of deportation. At one point, my whole team was made to stay until 9:30pm for an upcoming "meeting", at which time we were corralled into a room and told our project was behind and we were all going to start working 12-14 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is one example of many instances of mistreatment, and the project was mismanaged terribly. Upon quitting, I was not paid for my last several days of work. This culture started before EDS bought out Saber Corp and continued uninterrupted, but hopefully one day EDS will recognize the issues and clean this place up.

Advice to Senior Management

In a completely anonymous survey, ask your employees for feedback so that you can begin to understand what is going on in your company.

Pros

Top notch peers and management. Competitive pay and may offer some telecommuting opportunities if needed.

Cons

Line management changed too often (I had 3 different managers one year).

Pros

The atmosphere is professional but relaxed, allowing a person to meet the requirements to be successful

Cons

There was a lot of turn around in personal at one time, at one point there as not enough and then it was over crowded.

Advice to Senior Management

the manager allows the employees to take part in decision-making: therefore everything is agreed by the majority. The communication is extensive in both directions (from employees to leaders and vice-versa). This style can be particularly useful when complex decisions need to be made that require a range of specialist skills: for example, when a new ICT system needs to be put in place, and the upper management of the business is computer-illiterate. From the overall business's point of view, job satisfaction and quality of work will improve. However, the decision-making process is severely slowed down, and the need of a consensus may avoid taking the 'best' decision for the

Pros

Ability to work with multiple clients with state of the art computing environments
Automation of mundane task by tools to free up resources to concentrate on enhancing customer service
Flexible work agreements (flextime and tele-commuting)
Paid vacation and ability to take time-in-lieu for (some-billable) OT hours worked

Cons

Long hours, with almost no advance notice given for after hours/weekend work, not because of crisis situations (which are part of the job) but due to lack of planning / proper communications by project managers / upper management / client delivery managers
Deteriorating benefits and pension plan (from free to paid, from DB to DC)
Very little advancement options unless you are a management fave
Lack of training on new technologies needed to perform job functions
Inefficient use of new tools and technologies, which, on the paper, look great, but fail to certain degrees in implementation.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to understand that price is not the only important factor when delivering services. The Wal-martization of the IT services industry has already lost the company clients, due to below par support received from some (not all) outsourcing locations outside North America. A global organization to provide around the clock support is a very fine idea, but that shouldn't come at the expense of quality of service and the "I can employ 10 (indians/brazillians/filipinos/<insert favourite offshore location inhabitants du jour> for the price of one US/Canadian employee" mindset.

Pros

Less pressure
Lot of experienced resources
Good Work/Personal life balance

Cons

Frequent Teakovers and Management changes

Pros

You get Paid and good healthcare, 'townhalls' or feedback meetings as normal folks call them are good even if almost everything said has already been announced publicly or leaked to the register.com

Cons

Unless you are willed to be assimilated into the band of EDS'ers or are an ex marine the glass ceiling is very low

Advice to Senior Management

Forget about texas you're in the wider world now

Pros

Great work-life balance
not enough training opportunities

Cons

No advancement
not good enough pay compared to other companies

Advice to Senior Management

Try to groom your employees