Electronic Data Systems Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems as a contractor for more than 3 years

Pros – Flexible hours and family friendly

Cons – Low pay travel from schooling

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

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Best of breed solutions, great teams, leveraged knowledge?
Opportunities to develop a career due to the diversity of clients and solutions.

Cons – Company undertook some poor contracts leading to the loss of market position and enabling takeover by HP. Resulted in a loss flyover nance and overhead position as they cut costs to make the balance shheets to look good.

Advice to Senior Management – None, they are gone.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – Access to a lot of information for project management.
Opportunity to progress if you fit in.
Discount stock purchases were available.

Cons – Lacked quality senior managers.
Lack of staffing for project teams always an issue.
Internal processes for financial approvals delayed projects.
Pay is always an issue.
HP acquisition expected to make matters worse.

Advice to Senior Management – The acquisition by HP can make matters worse or a lot better. Find the talented experienced outsource managers and work with them to make the outsourced business services a place people want to work. If you introduce the HP way it wont work.

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – Commited to training and upskilling employees.
Opportunity for advancement if you know where to look.
Looks good on a resume.
Great colleagues.

Cons – Low pay relative to comparable positions in other companies. Pay increases designed to keep employees, not reward performance. The way to get reasonable salaries at EDS is to leave and return after 6 months to the same or better job at the current market rate. It's well known on the inside that EDS should be your first and third job... don't wait it out for the salary you deserve.

Advice to Senior Management – Fix the low morale

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – People within the workplace, good working environment, professional and laid back atmosphere.
Opportunities for professional growth, job variation within team.
Training and certification are part of day to day growth.
Flexibility of working hours and leave time.
Team very supportive of new employees, mentoring helps with career development.
Compensation for any shiftwork or oncall is appropriate.

Cons – No pathways for employees to gain salary review.
No communication from senior management regarding company wide issues and changes.
Enterprise Bargaining Agreement does not allow communication between staff of salary and renumeration packages.
No communication of what pay scale is applicable to your job code.
No real reward for overtime (extra pay, flexi time etc)

Advice to Senior Management – More communcation regarding company changes
More staff team building exercises (such as dinners, BBQs etc)
The knowledge of your own pay scale applicable to relevant job codes.

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – Large client engagements and complex projects.

Cons – Poor business model, poor client service, lack of values, bad managers promoted, excessive bureaucracy and defensiveness. This was a company that obsessed over a $400 air ticket but wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on a project that was supposed to deliver "synergies". Unsurprisingly there were no such synergies, the project was a complete failure and no-one was held accountable. I also found that there was a total disconnect between the sales function (remunerated purely on the basis of sales dollars) and the project delivery teams (who then had to try to make the project profitable when the price had been chiselled down to meet the client's lowball expectation).

Advice to Senior Management – Figure out what business you're in and then re-tool the company to serve only the profitable segments

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – Good opportunities to learn best practice in technology through challenging engagements. I joined in the 1990's which was a boom time to be in IT and very rewarding through remuneration, bonuses were aplenty.

Cons – An egocentric CEO who chased bonuses at the expense of long term profitable business combined with the the tech wreck hit of the early 21st century led to a company with no money and a serious morale problem. Present day EDS has not recovered and has a culture that does not walk the talk when dealing with staff. Middle Management try hard to engage staff but the rhetoric from on high doesn't cut it

Advice to Senior Management – Get engaged with the staff

Current Employee – been working at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – Depending on where you sit, you could have great people care managers who are understanding and make great difference to your work life. Generally competent people at the execution level. Some top notch visionaries. Wealth of information.

Cons – Not good at sharing information. Struggling with a general consultative approach, both internally and externally. Seems lost in trying to figure out how to stay competitive in the near future. HP deal causing confusion amongst staff.

Advice to Senior Management – Managers should try to understand their people by at least spending some time with them. People are not numbers.

Current Employee – been working at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – It's marginally better than being unemployed.

Cons – The constant fear of having your job sent off to India is a destabalising and debilitating influence that destroys productivity and staff morale.
There will always be a reason to not give you a pay rise. Be prepared to lose purchasing power each year as your salary stagnates.
The tools and processes you are expected to use daily cause mind numbing frustration and loss of productivity.
You must be a "yes man" to get ahead.
Constant cost cutting eg freeze on purchasing stationery.
Bullying by management.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to be true leaders, by investing in your staff which will fix the company long term.
Stop concentrating on your own remuneration packages and realise the company is dieing.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Electronic Data Systems

Pros – EDS are flexible with their employees and allow a good level of self management.

Cons – Changing things is akin to trying to turn the Titanic round in a swimming pool. Not exactly keeping up with the local market place pay rates. Lacks innovation.

Advice to Senior Management – Give more freedom to innovate, relax the controlling grip and get to understand the grass roots issues of working at EDS and trying to get things done easily. Look at the wasted money through the red tape and ridiculous processes

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend