Perot Systems Reviews in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Area

Pros

The company is definitely honest and reputable, I never worry about getting into an Enron type fiasco. There' s a lot of talk about being able to move around in the company but as a consultant I have to wonder if this is really an option as I've never seen a consultant move to a corporate role. Again, on the consulting side, the caliber of talent is second to none, the culture is quite collaborative and I never worry about not having the support of fellow consultants or management. This culture is quite different than what I've sen working for the Big 6/5/4 where there tends to be more competition than collaboration.

Cons

While there is more focus on global roles and deployments, the company remains US and India focused. Not so bad if you want to remain stateside or in India but if you want to get out and work globally the opportunities are limited.

Advice to Senior Management

Get in there with the big guys and sell work, keep focusing on hiring and retaining talent.

Pros

It's a great environment to learn many things. You're constantly challenged on a daily basis to learn, grow and adapt. A great place to develop your business/consulting skills. I was part of a very knowledgeable and experienced team that I took cues from on how to improve in many areas of my profession.

Cons

If you're not a competitive person, then this place will eat you alive. You have to be very resourceful in solving problems because in the area in which I worked there wasn't a lot of guidance from peers. There a lot of long hours and weekend work required.

Advice to Senior Management

Revisit the things that made Perot Systems a truly great place to work.

Pros

Allows flexiblity to work from home. Balance work/family. Good communication between management and team members.

Cons

Salary increments are pathetic and vitually non existant. Salary hikes do not keep up with the increased cost of living/commuting.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to review Salary increments policy before you loose your top performers.

Pros

Founded on a genuine philosophy of valuing their people. All went down hill when the company have to make quarter numbers to make Wall St happy. Used to have a passion to work there but after 10 years the passion has died.

Cons

Salary is not competitive with market if you have been there for a long time, medical benefit has gone from bad to worst to almost none existance. Raises are minial at 1% or 2%. Bonuses are none existance. Morale is low especially in the healthcare account. What Ross Sr., the chairman preached is not what the other management CIO, CEO practise. Workload and number of employess are way off. Too tight budget that there is no budget for real training.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior Management needs to get their head out of the notion of competing to be the best company to work in the world and focus on the people. All the prep rally talk gets old and just demoralizes good, talented and dedicated employees. I am one of those. I know business is about bottom line numbers but is running off good talented employees to make wall st. happy worth it? If it does, please remove "We value our associates" from the values card. Yearly survey seems to became a yearly todo and slow to react to employee's concern. Go back to the years when Ross Sr. was in charge, learn what he did right.

Pros

If your leadership and team are part of the "old-time" Perot, you will have the most positive professional experience of your life. If you work hard for the "real team" and "the real company", they will work hard to take care of you, within the limits set for them by upper management. The company culture and the old-timers are why I stay. There is the "Perot Way", and then everyone and everything else.

Cons

Hires from ACS and EDS into leadership positions. Meaningless raises (2%), fixed distributions and foregone conclusions in the performance review process, un-realisticly low pay bands for the specialist and sr. specialist grades.

Advice to Senior Management

Get people in new business development and sales that understand more than just closing the deal. They need to understand the technology and our delivery capabilities. We need to invest in tools that improve our delivery capability.

Pros

Employee oriented, Internal Trainings, good employee benefits, you can balance your life between family and work, family values, value people, fair business model,

Cons

Contract/Project oriented work and hence ends sooner or later, recurring relocations.

Advice to Senior Management

Need aggressive management structure, pricing, monitoring internal costs,

Pros

It's an amazing facility with fabulous benefits, and was founded on a great moral system and vision.

Cons

Those great moral visions have somewhat lost their way through all the changes in ownership/management. My viewpoint is off since I worked in a call center environment, though, and often you don't get a clear vision of other parts in the company. But during that time I did witness countless mistakes made in management or lack-there-of, and huge problems with setting priorities regarding servicing rather than squeezing the most out of clients and employees. I DID, however, get to meet Ross Perot!

Advice to Senior Management

To fall back on the vision created by Ross Perot when the company was founded. The respectable and correct route is not always easy to take and may effect how much money you can squeeze out of a contract... but long term it's what holds the company, employees, and clients together.

Pros

Departments run by managers that have been with the company longer than 10 years remember and live by Ross' rules and associates thrive. They go above and beyond what other companies do when it comes caring about the associates and treating people as a valued asset.

Associates that have been with the company longer than 10 years are still willing to walk through fire to get projects accomplished. They remember the "good times."

Cons

New associates and managers treat each other and their duties as if it is "just a job". They have no loyalty to the company since the company has no layalty to them. They were not around for the "good old days" when Ross and Mort were running the company so they never saw it when "troops were rewarded first" and were always well cared for.

Advice to Senior Management

Since the stock value is worth less than the day the company went public, it is time to stop the focus on the share value and start focusing on what made Perot Systems great. Its people! When associates and clients are your first priorities, everything else will fall into place. When people are cared for they will do whatever it takes to satisfy their clients and the "walk through fire" attitude will be restored. This will build loyalty and make Perot Systems "the" place to work. Our client satisfaction will increase and our stellar reputation will preceed us. This will ultimately lead to shareholder value, which is something we have not been able to accomplish since we went public.

Pros

When I first joined perot eight years ago. I was paid well. The drawpoint for me was their emphasis of family. I can work in peace and if some emergency arise with my family, i can go and take care of them and not worry. They also reimburses your tuition payment. Their criteria was not hard to get a 100% tuition reimbursed. The management was also very pleasant and great to work with. Classes were given to further your career. Reimbursement were given also after you passed your certifications. Location was also a drawpoint for me since I only have to drive 5 miles.

Cons

Little or no raise at all. 1 to 2 %. Bonus- what's that. They are good in brainwashing people to work a lot of hours and no pay. Then when it comes to your yearly review, they forget all the hard work you did and only bring out the ones you did wrong ( eventhough most of them are not your fault). Some of the higher management may have been car salesman in the past cause they will lie to your face. They will also like to tell you its in the SLA. Ask them to show you the agreement and they won't.

Advice to Senior Management

How bout u switch position with some of your peons and see how you like it.

Pros

Working with a high quality group of people and with some interesting companies a clients; sense of purpose in the Ross Perot legacy and free access to the Ross Perot Museum in Plano

Cons

entrenched political bureaucracy; account managers stuck in tactical duck-and-cover mode, unable to grow the business; overshot expectations for India and other offshore resources, thus spinning wheels chasing wage arbitrage rather than building value; too many units have been setup to fail and there is no continuity as a result; but on the associate side there is too much continuity as too many associates worked at EDS and have basically worked (at least in their minds) for Ross Perot all their lives and don't realize this is not the 1980s and not EDS; Peter Altabef appears to be positioning the company for sale and has done absolutely nothing to facilitate a direction for business or technology leadership; the company is an IT -- Information TECHNOLOGY company, but is among the least technology-savvy among its contemporaries, despite having someone the most talented associates in the industry.

Advice to Senior Management

invest more in building competencies and leverage established divisions like healthcare and government