Electronic Data Systems Reviews

Pros

Lot's of opportunity and great people to work with.

Cons

Some time it takes a while to get decisions in big companies.

Pros

Flexibility and Dependability and work from home option.

Cons

Time sheet organization and bucketing system is really bad

Pros

Good place for getting training for new skill set

Cons

Compensation for your skill set is inadequate

Advice to Senior Management

Be open to employees regarding how much of bonus is allocated to each business group, employees on the floor usually hear of bonuses but they do not actually get any.

Pros

Very good place to work.

Cons

Cons - allocate good projects to techies.

Advice to Senior Management

Lot of advice especially to Managers who sits in other offshore locations, please visit and interact regularly to other branches.

Pros

Flexibility, variety of work/ job options

Cons

Limited promotion opportunities, need to know people to progress

Pros

International exposure is important for a global perspective - they provide this adequately.

Cons

I worked for them for 11 years and they had a retrenchement cycle every thisrd year. I got retrenched and 'saved' last moment so often that it started to be a joke. It had little to do with my abiity, more about not wanting to invest in a direction that has since been proven as accurate.

Advice to Senior Management

Value your staff, listen to their advice. They were hired as experts, why don't you listen to them?

Pros

The friendly co-workers are cool

Cons

Working conditions and morale, not good

Advice to Senior Management

NO support

Pros

Opportunities span the full range of the IT spectrum, from mainframe to embedded systems

Cons

Multiple work force reductions have demoralized the work force

Advice to Senior Management

Bring stability to the work force

Pros

Good consulting company to work with. If you travel for the company all travel is paid for (by client in most cases). Choice of working from home or office.

Cons

Promotion process is not great. It all depends on your manager. If you get a good manger who will work with you, you will be ok but if not, it will be hard.

Pros

Close to home, great boss and team to work with.

Cons

Lack of communication by CEO as to what they were doing with the company.....