CSC reviews

The company is HUGE, which means the compensation increases are slow and the promotions have to be approved by many layers of management. Even if you are ranked as a superstar during the review, the increase is likely to be very conservative. The official explanation -- we all perform like stars, this is CSC way. Different branches of CSC and different accounts within those branches vary significantly, but within my unit of GTS I have seen people treated like commodities way too often. I have seen star performers leave because they did not get the recognition they were promised and deserved. I have seen people being asked to work weekends and holidays for 4 months in a row to cover mismanagement issues. Since most of the work is done at the client site, the upper management is offsite, unaware and uninvolved. The big wigs show up when bad things happen and send in the troops in the form of more managers. Bottom line, very little praise for good things, major beatings for bad things. Obviously the morale is not too high. Overall, the management structure sucks and unless you are very good at politics, you will not get the credit you deserve.

Management does not communite sufficiently to the employees. Other than the details of the project we may be on, none of us know what is happening back at the office in terms of new business and proposals in the pipeline. It makes us wonder especially in these lean times.