Unisys Reviews

Pros

Favoritism is rewarded, performance reviews are on time but have little to do with rewards (there were none for 5 years)
Internal education is available at a HS level

Cons

Continual lay-offs/"right-sizing" to India.
Incompetence is fine based on seniority and if you grew up in the 'field"
Educcation is not valued
The culture dictates being scared of the boss

Advice to Senior Management

Fire/"right size" the ancient Field Engineers who some how (Peter Principle) have risen to Director level jobs that require grey matter skill sets of which they only know hand level skills from fixing machines in the 1970's

Pros

* Challenging client projects
* Many career growth opportunities
* Great people to work with
* Respectible salaries and benefits
* Process and systems oriented company
* Worldwide company

Cons

* Goals and review process can be convoluted and capricious
* Some positions can require extensive travel on personal time
* Company initiatives can change too often

Advice to Senior Management

It can be difficult to properly guide a company so large, but that's what you get paid for. Establish the company direction and policies and stick with them for a while.

Pros

Good opportunities to progress if you fit the mould
Strong sales culture
Good entry level salaries
Wide variety of work

Cons

Micro-management; lack of true leadership
Inflexible senior managers and leaders
HQ vs Regional politics
Lack of reward of recognition
Employees treated like machines

Advice to Senior Management

Respect and reward your employees as people rather than an inconvenience to making quarterly targets. Demostrate leadership and trust rather than autocracy and control.

Pros

You get to work with some very smart, very experienced people. The CEO, Ed Coleman seems to very much care where the company is headed and is a very easy person to talk to. I would say many people have their business "heart" in the right place. On a personal level salary and benefits are good, but perhaps not great. in this day and age a decent salary is tough to come by, so my appreciation to this company for that.

Cons

This company has shrunk so much in the last 10 years that it has become impossible to get anything done with any level of quality or pride. We are basically set up to fail. I get the same comment from my colleagues in many areas so it isn't just me. You are on your own which, sometimes can be a good thing, but in this case isn't.
This company continues to think and act as if we were one of the "big guys", but those days are over.
Work / life is completely out of balance... you get decent vacation time, but you can never take it.
Don't expect to coast in this company (not really a con)... life is more of a frenzied scrambling and hanging on for dear life.

Advice to Senior Management

It is time to stop trying to compete head on with the big boys on every front and instead carve out a few select niches where we can effectively compete. You are setting us up to fail. take the smart people you have, create teams that actually have enough people to be effective and focus them on where we really want to be successful.

Pros

Great Technology backbone.
Great Process
Great People
Global Footprint
Informal environment.
This could have been a great place to work.

Cons

You can feel to be part of a huge, extremely well built, process oriented company. However you will also feel that you are part if a company walking downhill.
It has absolute best process and technology - but top and senior management is confused on what to do with those

Advice to Senior Management

India Management is doing what they can do. Unisys globally needs to settle down with narrow vision, deliver and build the company accordingly.
Too much politics in higher level - Globally.

Pros

Good benefits and learning and advancement opportunities.

Cons

A few people, some of whom have been asked to seek other employment because of their attitudes, influenced a gaggle of weaker-willed souls who have spent their days backbiting anyone giving them the slightest excuse for a cheap laugh or an easy put-down. Of course being human, the backbiters would later do things making them fit to be framed by their own critical words. By a slim minority, there seemed to be great joy taken in backbiting. The contaminated attitudes of those few people seemed to reduced the respectability and peacefulness of the work environment and therefore, the company as a whole.

Advice to Senior Management

Be positive, seek decent people who foster a positive environment to be leaders and trainers. Clean out the negative, obnoxious, loud and giddy. Backbiters don’t help the company.

Pros

Good people working in the trenchs; will pay a fair wage (to start), exellent training opportunities and a flexible work environment

Cons

For the past ten years the company has changed their business strategy almost on a yearly basis. It's been a revolving door at the upper management level with each new exec wanting to change how Unisys does business. Problem is that the organization never has time to adjust and gain traction before the next sweeping change takes place. It has severely damaged morale which is easily seen by the company's performance over the past few years.

Advice to Senior Management

Make an intelligent plan and stick to it! The corporate culture has to be client focused, and internal politics solely for personal gain should not be tolerated!

Pros

Work life balance

Wide variety of technology projects

Strong senior management

Cons

focussed on too many areas

Advice to Senior Management

Make the employees aligned with organization strategy

Pros

Large firm, with global reach in public sector

Cons

No current technology skills present

Advice to Senior Management

Very old school

Pros

Pay, Benefits, Phenominal team. Creative opportunities

Cons

Company downsizes its employees every few years.

Advice to Senior Management

cut middle management layers.