Unisys Reviews

I have been working at Unisys full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Local management is very supportive. Current senior management seems to have vision. This was not the case for much of the last 15 years.

Cons – Suffers from many of the same maladies as the rest of the computer industry. It is always a struggle to find the right product and a way to sell it.

Advice to Senior Management – Make sure the upper management is chosen and kept by performance, not by whom the know.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Unisys full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Excellent local management. They tried their best to keep the company going.

Cons – No raises of any significance.

Advice to Senior Management – Reward hard working employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Unisys as a contractor

Pros – Good interaction with both client and consultant. Attempts to familiarize itself with issues and creatively resolve them.

Cons – Puts their bottom line before their consultants. Lies to clients to justify letting go strong consultants.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn the market and the positions you are filling. Happy, comfortable consultants make happy clients. When the consultants are not happy, the projects are always on edge which opens the door for failure.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Unisys full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Decent benefits. Flexible. Nice coworkers.

Cons – Low pay. Unorganized upper management. Long hours.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Unisys full-time

Pros – Relatively Stable business in their core areas of strength. They have long-standing entrenched positions with key clients in certain marketplaces

Great place to work if you are tech specialist and want to do the same job for many years.

Cons – There is almost no formal path to career advancement. You bring skills with you, develop them almost entirely on your own, and then you are jettisoned when there is no longer fit. There is little culture for mentorship and stewardship. You need to land on the right set of leaders to advance.

Extremely siloed. UIS is trying get more agile create cross-functional teams to get into emerging market spaces, but some of the personnel has been entrenched for 20+ years and have incentive or inclination to adapt.

Advice to Senior Management – HR and talent management is not in-line with where the company claims it wants to go. In my project experience of trying work across business units to deliver projects, it's a bunch of "buck-passers" with far too few engaged team members.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Unisys full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Fantastic people, especially in the Federal division, loads of experience and cross-learning opportunities. There is much to be said for their legacy and what you can learn from it.

Cons – Complete management flux, lack of creativity and vision for growth. Still trying to hold onto the past.

Advice to Senior Management – There are a lot of old dogs in the company, if you want to progress you will need to find new life blood in the ranks without destroying the network you have. A tough balance

I worked at Unisys full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good people to work with.

Cons – No job security due to layoffs.

Advice to Senior Management – layoffs should start at the top.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Unisys

Pros – Long Term contract, supportive initially but not over a period of time

Cons – disconnect from headquarters, no bench time, no support after contract ends

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Unisys full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Co-workers were friendly, got to explore the area

Cons – The pay is poor for the type of work required (I made just over $30,000/yr flat on average and some of the new-hired co-workers make as little as $24,000/yr), and the benefits are terrible. Your health coverage has a $1700 deductible, making it literally useless for all basic medical coverage. I’ve only seen ONE raise in the entire time I’ve worked with this company, and if anything, it seems I am getting paid LESS then when I first started. Also, you will put ALLOT of miles, wear and tear, and damage on your OWN car (Unisys provides no company vehicle) which you have to pay out of pocket. In two years’ time, I’ve put 48,800 miles on my car. Unisys only covers gas mileage (which is below average on price per mile) and parking.

Also, THE largest issues with this position is the program they use for creating the routes for your repair stops, called "Click Schedule" (the interface we use for it is called "SRMS"). It is HORRID at doing what its designed for, creating schedules. I have a feeling the creators of this program would be laughed out of the room if they presented this any other company. It has literally sent me in routes that sent me in circles more than once. Its also sent me to locations 50 or more miles away from every other service route and then 50 miles back to the area I just came from. It has even once made my first and last stop of the day 2 miles from each other. It will also commonly sends two technicians to the same exact location. This system also clearly does not care about mileage, despite it supposed to keep track of it. And the list of massive problems with Click Schedule just go on and on. This is something you shouldn't ever a muti-billion dollar company is using, yet they have been using the system since 2002 and show no signs moving to another, FAR more efficient program. This program should be thrown out, or we should make our own schedules and not have to rely on this program.

It also gives an amount of repairs that only a tech-equivalent of Superman could ever dream of completing. For some of my co-workers, 10 or more stop schedules are quite common and usually include the same routing mess as above, and can include complex to repair systems that take well over an hour to complete. Allot of these customers tend to have a narrow window of availability (something Dell and Click Schedule don’t always get), which leads to us constantly playing a non-stop game of beat the clock. This of course leads to us having to reschedule a high number of appointment on a daily basis, which can easily lead to upset customers. It can also give an ETA time of as little as 30 minutes to go between repairs, regardless of the system and mileage (it has expected me to go 50 miles down country roads and complete a stop in less than 30 min before). Its expectations the majority of the time are super unrealistic if you’re a human being.

However, upper management treats it as if this program has no fault, and tries to force us to follow its horrible routes in the order it gives, with very few exceptions majority of the time. The managers tend ignore any emails or texts about attempting to change Click Schedules errors, and we sometimes get complaints for not being able to live up to Click Schedule's unrealistic expectations or deciding to not follow its schedule in order because it makes more sense economically and logically to not follow the order it has laid out.

Advice to Senior Management – Change the scheduling system to something far more efficient, hire local managers who understand the area, be more willing to change the schedules if poorly laid out, give employees raises and better benefits.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Unisys full-time for more than a year

Pros – Get your foot in the door at Microsoft so you can do the same job for double the pay.

Cons – Insultingly low pay (bottom 10%), most understaffed place I've ever worked, be a doormat for the "blue badges."

Advice to Senior Management – Drop dead.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company