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2.9

43% would recommend to a friend

(6,343 total reviews)
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Mike Lawrie

46% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

CSC has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 6,343 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The CSC employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Dec 30, 2014
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Pros

There is no PRO about this company that can outweigh the CONS.

Cons

The following applies to the Menands, NY only....(eMedNY) -If the building doesn't scare you the rest of this list will. The office is set in an old Montgomery Ward warehouse which is only partially converted into office space. Constant plumbing problems (yes backed up toilets) and the whole lobby leaks every time it rains. -A full work week is 40 hours/8 hours per day. If you want to take lunch you have to work 8.5 or 9 hours a day. The extra hours beyond 8 is your lunch time. Oh and there is no place to eat that lunch except at your desk. No place! -Employee parking is across the street, half way down the block and down a hill. There's a bus but add 15 minutes to your arrival and departure time. There's building parking but you have to pay for that. And they give you the worse spots. -New employees only get 2 weeks PTO. The company forces you to use 4 of those days during the last week of the year for a companywide shutdown. The Menands location is exempt from this rule but this goes to show how much this company care about work life. Note if you leave the Menands office you will only get 6 days PTO to use as you wish. -The most offensive thing....the project in the Menands office was lost to another vendor and within the next 4 years there will be no work there. The other vendor has already began taking over, training has stopped, people are quitting every day, there are no resources. The company is in survival mode. This is a dying project and they are pinching pennies. -There is a staff quota. With so many people quitting every day they need to keep hiring. So if your human they will hire you to keep the quota up. They are taking good people away from their jobs with the promise of training and other stuff but it's all lies. When you get there you hardly have any work to do! Egregious. I wish I had not left a good job for the promises CSC offered. Especially since I read so many horrible things here on glass door. I chalked it up to the fact that most of the employees at this office were contractors and/or foreigners and so their experiences were probably different from full time employees that were citizens. That was an incorrect assumption on my part and a valuable lesson learned. All the bad stuff written on glass door about CSC is true!

1.0
Dec 17, 2014
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Pros

I've been with CSC for 7 years now. The PROS of the company are: - they pay very well - they HAD a lot of very skilled consultants

Cons

The bad far outnumbers the good - Their "turn around" is failed - seems to be a revolving door of executives that stay a few months and then leave, and conflicting oscillating priorities - Continual layoffs - Employee morale that has hit rock bottom - They keep messing with benefits - stopping vacation accrual carryover, need to take all "legacy" accrued vacation by end of year or you lose it (or they'll pay you 40 cents on the dollar for it...) 401K match only paid out annually - and you must be an active employee to be paid out. When they realized that forcing people to take all of their accrued vacation was impacting revenue.... their response was "work/bill more" - cannot land new clients - has lost focus on what matters most - the employees, Without highly skilled employees nothing in their turn around plan will work

1.0
Dec 11, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits of working here really depend on the contract you're working under. There are some interesting projects - including mine - that can be really professionally rewarding, and many of the non-managerial people, at least that I work with, are engaged and motivated. I think the higher your level of expertise, the more worthwhile it would be working for this contractor. The more specialized your knowledge, and therefore the more control you have over your work assignments, the better. If you're just one of the rank and file, then the situation would be very different.

Cons

There is very little good to say about the company itself. They don't really *do* anything, they hire people to do things and then scoop off a portion of everyone's salary. That's how contracting works. CSC is in the middle of an attempted turnaround, having hired a CEO to goose their stock price (and his compensation is based on annual percent gains in stock price), and they've been doing this primarily by improving margins by cutting benefits and by pushing everyone to go out and get more business, in addition to doing your actual job. The list of indignities employees have had to put up with in the past few years is too extensive to list, but includes a Draconian (and nonsensical) assessment/wage increase policy, constant changes in health benefits, changes to vacation policy (aimed at getting vacation days off the books and thus forcing employees to take vacations on specified days and reducing vacation accumulation and carryover). There has been much disaffection amongst the ranks, and I know a number of people who have either left or are actively looking for ways out. I get the feeling that there's little room for advancement, and there's pretty much a cap on salaries these days, and there's very little support (or tolerance!) for professional growth within the company. I'm pretty much outside of all of this because of the highly specialized nature of my work, but still the general malaise is hard to ignore. Bottom line is that unless there is specific work on a specific contract that you're really like to be doing, you probably don't want to work here.

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