Electronic Data Systems Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems full-time for more than a year

Pros – Large company benefits like medical care and etc.

Cons – Management really SUCKS, with too many insane corporate policies and micromanagement that stalls creativity and innovation. Dilbert-like workplace.

Advice to Senior Management – Resign and let some good professionals in.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – - Relaxed schedule
- Easy place to work
- Great co-workers that help you when needed and understand and help with your frustration at work

Cons – - No opportunity for career advancement and growth.
- No orientation / training when you are first hired or afterward; Management turns down training requests

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.Avoid at all costs, particularly new college graduates as the culture is very bad. Dont waste your time here

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems full-time for less than a year

Pros – almost nothing i found good .

Cons – too many to mentioned here and business model is very bad.

Advice to Senior Management – learn to manage humar resource properly

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – If you can get a decent manager, which is rare, you could get good training. The trick is to get a profitable account with good managers, some decent role models. Very few, but they do exist.

Cons – Lies about raises, bonuses, potential etc. This company is totally without any conscience toward its employees, its customers etc. Jobs are priced for 35 per cent profit, plus at least 10 contingency, travel, training etc. then when the contract is signed, this is all rolled into a stretch profit against which the manager is measured. The employee is in fact short changed, the customer gets little of the quality and training he has paid for and the contract is strictly managed against change control to insure the customer is charged for all changes (contingency). If you do business with EDS, make sure you have a strong contract with penalties. Otherwise, look elsewhere.

Advice to Senior Management – I would carefully review all senior managers expenses, invest in a serious internal audit team to assess the actual condition of projects, stop sending work to India where the culture is risk adverse and they will actually walk away if they have issues with delivery. EDS has had some very poor senior management in recent years (especially in Europe) which has now mostly retired on unearned pensions, however, the damage will take years to repair.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems

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.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – lots of parking, spacious working spaces

Cons – depressing work environment, lazy unmotivated people

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – You could turn up and leave when you wanted to. They pay you.

Cons – Everything else. They bully, they manage everything by spreadsheets, think Project Managers just need to wear a suit to qualify, they bully some more. Oh and they bully.

e.g. a manager kept ringing the company mobile I had, despite me being sat at my desk next to a landline. I suggested the landline as the only times I was away were: toilet breaks, lunch or in the server room doing work. He failed to agree and kept the ringing mobile.

Advice to Senior Management – Grow a backbone and grow up (stop bullying). PS: HP bought them after I left, so HP sack the bullies not the techies.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – - The people there are very nice.

Cons – - Very poor work life balance
- Doing 5 people's jobs when only getting paid for one
- Did not train at all when you are first hired or after.
- No employee orientation when you are first hired.
- No opportunity for career advancement and growth.
- Work overtime a lot on nights and weekends.
- Very stressful work enviornment.
- Paychecks kept decreasing.
- They shove something at you to complete when you are not trained at all on the subject.
- They fire people for no reason at all. I have seen it happen to a few people that I worked with.

Advice to Senior Management – Look at my cons and improve on all of them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – Big organization provides options to move around locations

Cons – They prefer contractors to bring cost down. Contractors mostly underperform and get away with it

Advice to Senior Management – Please focus on value to clients not just on cost cutting

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – Great co-workers that help you when needed and understand and help with your frustration at work. Service juggernaut that had large accounts which meant there was plenty of work.

Cons – Frustrating compensation and promotion hurdles. Plenty of work meant that you were doing more than plenty of work. Work life balancing act was difficult.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay more attention to your people managers and whether they use nepotism in picking and choosing employees for promotions and opportunities.