Pros

Great benefits especially the Employee Stock Purchasing Program which gives you an E-trade Account and purchases Perot Stock at a 15% discount. The once 4%, now 2%, matching for 401(k) contribution was a great and I hope it returns like they said it "might". HR is speedy with your requests for information and changes to benefits. The company is stable and exceptionally good at match an employees skill to client needs. The job you are hired for will definitely be a great fit as long as you know yourself well and can articulate what you need from the job they hire you to fill and ensure that you get it.

Cons

For Perot employees that work primarily at government client sites, know that if you're particular client is usually difficult, but you have made the client happy, Perot will not move you from the client to work that you know would help your career. Using your educational benefits and networking your way to a promotion with the company will be difficult to say the least. This is true mainly because as a Site-based associate you do not participate in the corporate culture and are not availed to opportunities that would mormally come your way through networking at corporate functions or seeing you management on a daily basis. Essentially working at the client site makes you the companies ultimate cash cow without the most important benefit of career advancement.

Advice to Senior Management

Please find a way to engage the site-based associates who bring a fair amount of money into the company. Usually they are capable of much and want to branch into other areas of their work. If you, as Senior management, can tap into their areas of interest and grow them into those areas you will find them earning Perot even more money for the company and them praising Perot Systems all the while. Praise from employees never hurt company's brand.