Unisys Reviews

Pros

Unisys offers a great work site, good paid time off, a fun yet professional work environment, and great opportunities to advance.

Cons

Pay for entry level agents is competative but should be somewhat higher to attract and retain the best talent. Pay for first line supervisors should be more competative.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the account supervisor glass ceiling. Make it much easier to go from UTS to Unisys direct. More incentives!

Pros

Unisys provides a very good foundation on the basics for the Freshers to begin their career.

Cons

Required to stretch your time and work on weekends, very frequently.

Pros

Good technology
Good learning experience
Good co-workers

Cons

Horrible marketing
Don't practice what they preach
Getting simple tasks accomplished was like pulling teeth
Constant high level management turnover

Pros

The mix of proprietary and commodity software and hardware technologies results in some very interesting projects. Organizational managers are supportive of their organizations.

Cons

Low staff turnover has resulted in a stale environment in some respects - the vast majority of the Malvern management and engineering staff have been in the Malvern facility for fifteen - twenty years.

Advice to Senior Management

To improve employee satisfaction and spread good practices and ideas across the company, develop explicit employee development programs or similar initiatives to rotate employee work assignments in the company. The virtual workplace trend should support this.

Pros

Employees were also friends who showed compassion and support for each other.

Cons

Organizations became isolated from each other and pushed to glorify their own P&L.

Advice to Senior Management

None.

Pros

Benifits are good, and they do reward those who produce fairly

Cons

Lack of interpersonal connection with managment-limited oppertunities

Advice to Senior Management

Connect better with employees, promote and provide better oppertunites for your Golbal business, not the one just in your direct perview. When you promise an employee something, do it.

Pros

its fun, and not to hard, good pay for what you have to do.

Cons

Some Calls require more tools and training that we dont get.

Advice to Senior Management

Work with the Cues to help us get better training on what we actually do...

Pros

I was great working on the account with people who were developing the new OS

Cons

They lowered my pay, kept telling me that they were going to hire me permanent and never did. I was there 10 months before i left for greener pastures.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to you agents when they know something in the process is wrong.

Pros

Defined benefit pension available until 2006.

Cons

Subpar industry reputation since 1995.

Pros

The technology can be interesting and the coworkers can be really interesting. They really know how to build an OS there. Being able to work with a person from 4 different continents is really cool. One of the few places where a machine is constructed from the ground up and as a result you can understand computers at deeper level them most.

Cons

When someone is anointed by management NOTHING will remove that person the messianic status. Even if that person is wrong and abusive. I have witnessed a screaming match that went on for over an hour. The first level managers then attempt to hide these things from directors and above.

Recruit! Very little hiring is being done and when we have a chance at top talent he sliped out the door because it took over a month to get him an offer. Further more some of the best people we have under 40 are going to leave/leaving/left because the atmosphere is very angry, very petty.

Things are very weak when it comes to proper engineering. There isn't much professionalism left. Several key groups hold NO code inspections and when pressed by upper management lie and say they do.

Fund things that will attract market attention. You have a sizable base with the old univac customers but they are being ignored forever.

Most managers say 90% of the current customers is ok. But they keep saying that and soon after a few years 90% of 90% of 90% is not worth it.

Declining sales, dwindling talent pool and weak management all lead me to state the obvious but painful.
Eventually it will have to shut down.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop tolrating screaming matches.
Bring in proper managers this means liquidate everyone between the VP and the first level line managers, eliminate most of the line managers too. They are far too good at hiding the arguments without resolving them.