Perot Systems Reviews

Pros

The work is challenging.
Developed a network of colleagues which respect one another.

Cons

In the past several years merit increases were scarse.

Pros

Good people and working with todays technology.

Cons

They needed more cash flow

Advice to Senior Management

They did it and are nows part of Dell

Pros

The company offers good opportunities for growth.

Cons

There are better opportunites in the Plano, TX headquarters.

Pros

Female staff friendly. Have opportunities for on-shore, i.e., working directly at client site. Compensation is good as one moves up on the corporate ladder.

Cons

Lot of bureaucracy. Senior management not capable of handling clients. Politics within the team. Favoritism to some employees. Need for more transparency.

Advice to Senior Management

Have better evaluation standards. Give more incentives to the entry-level employees so that do well for the company. Remove the bureaucracy. Provide more flexibility, like work from home to employees.

Pros

There was genuine care and concern for the employees. I experienced it from the CEO. Receiving an email from him on a Sunday morning for a personal problem. I was pleasantly shocked!

Cons

The usual "office politics" is found even in this fine organization with favoritism and lack of accountability at the senior level. The unfortunate tension between client'e employees who had to be now reporting to onsite vendor was very noticeable and this created unnecessary tension and delayed many projects.

Advice to Senior Management

I would urge them to trust the senior managers who are entrusted to carry out the company's policies and manage their local teams.

Pros

Work life balance is great. We have a world class gym on site. The opportunities for various projects which helps one gain experience is great.

Cons

The salary raises is not that constant and great. Perot pays lower than most of its competitors. Their benefits are great though.

Advice to Senior Management

Benchmark yourself with other competitors so you can retain great talent. There is so much competiotion out there for outstanding individuals.

Pros

I worked as a desktop support for Perot to a local company. I believe my wages were fair and my boss was great.

Cons

I felt that there was zero chance of COL raises or even raises due to performance.

Advice to Senior Management

COL raises are always nice. You can't keep paying people the same amount even after working there for a while and providing excellent work. That just makes people leave.

Pros

no late working pressure ,good company for women

Cons

salry rnge is nt good

Advice to Senior Management

to do more branding in market

Pros

The work life balance was pretty good. A lot of projects are mindful of expenses and thus have the flexibiliy to work at home or take 1 week on client site and 1 week off client site.

Cons

They sell a lot of project at a lower price and make up the different through expense savings. This makes it harder for the consultants on the projects.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your staff and not just the director-level. You need to have respect for all levels and help advance careers other than just staffing as if we are all temps.

Pros

It is an interesting place to work a lot of interseting projects and to work on. My coworkers are generally very nice people and easy to deal with directly. They have a mission oriented attitude and plan and are driven to succed.

Cons

While my coworkers are nice on a personal level, the internal management polices and practices make it a very difficult place to work. They treat everyone like a temp employee. Your job hangs on the whims of the clients. If a client doesn't like you for any reason your gone. This is spun as having a no bench policy, that enables them to be a lean efficent company. The reality is that is a policy that only benifits the corperate bottom line and is used a tool for controling employees by reminding them that they will be gone tomorrow if the don't tow the line and produce. So, if you comfortable in a very political enviroment where there is not a lot of security it is a nice place to work. I would not recommend it for most people.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop treating people as office supplies. They can't be replaced as easily as a printer cartridge.