CSC reviews

Salary freeze for most employees for the past 2 years. Progressively worse benefits since Lawie became CEO. This includes vacation policy changes, much much more costly healthcare benefits. Thus stock has risen, Lawrie and his "management team" earn millions and 15K to 20K employees have left during the past few years. Review process is a joke with a quota system that forces 70% of employees to fit into categories that are less than "fully meets expectations". My interpretation is this implies 70% of employees are not completely satisfactory in their performance. Who would hire a company who claims that over 70% of their employees are not fully satisfactory at performing their jobs? New management is totally focused on sales and marketing/proposal responses, but there is minimal recognition of the skills needed to implement projects. To borrow a derogatory phrase from IBM, it feels as if the attitude toward the employees is that they are "fungible". I hate to be placed on new projects because it is impossible to staff properly since we have no bench strength and anything we win is due to our low-ball pricing. CSC seems to be making inroads into being labeled in the gartner "upper quadrant" in several strategic areas. However, this is mostly due to building a "good story" (i.e. marketing) but not actually proving that CSC has repeatedly delivered successful implementations. CSC has zero regard for work-life balance. They will work you as many hours as possible. For those working proposals this could easily be 80+ hours per week for many weeks on end. Other than one or two people (e.g. capture/proposal manager) there will be no compensation for the extra hours.