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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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6K reviews
2.0
Apr 18, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Because they have a strong IT component and are essentially a behemoth in doing a lot of work that few other companies find worthwhile, they'll definitely maintain a stronghold in contracts nationwide. In short, they will never run out of work.

Cons

Besides being extremely disorganized in terms of how they adapt their acquisitions into the fold, or how they train up and promote their staff (they have a lot of structure but the standards are pretty arbitrary), they don't work to keep people. The turnover when I was there was quite high and definitely incorporated into their culture.

2.0
Apr 9, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is a large company, so there is a chance of finding a niche group that works well together and makes for a positive work environment.

Cons

The company does not seem to care about its employees. Benefits are not that great to begin with, and seem to be getting worse each year. Yearly raises seem to be lowering each year. The company culture is also not great. It seems like promotions are given to yes-men and people who are able to avoid getting blamed for making bad decisions, while true hard work and value are largely ignored. There seems to be little to no repercussions for higher level employees who repeatedly make bad decisions. My greatest concern is that there is very little focus on providing a high quality service/product to the clients. There is more focus on finding ways to regroup a service in order to charge a client more, or to deliver a product that covers a lot of buzz-words but that is not nearly as useful/functional as it could be.

1.0
Mar 23, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Talented people although pool is shrinking due to layoffs and turnover. Some interesting projects Strong desire to become recognized as a leader in strategic technologies (e.g., Big Data, Cloud, Mobile)

Cons

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.

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