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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
Sep 22, 2016
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Pros

...if you're thinking about working here. Then run away as fast as possible and don't look back.

Cons

Sadly the worst time of my career. I don't believe in calling anything a mistake but these are bad people and this is a bad company. If you look below, you'll notice many bogus 5 star ratings that HR must be entering in an effort to skew the data and prop them up to a 2.7 rating - lol. Management is a bunch of recycled C- players from former great companies of years past that have also entered into a death cycle. This company is simply on the wrong side of the market disruption. There is no ability to drive top line growth so management judt focuses on operating margins. So when bookings fail to grow q/q, they must continuously cut the Opex side and headcount. And so the cycle continues. Mike Laurie's only skill is cutting costs. With HP now coming into the fold there will be more scale and more to cut to continue this cycle during which time Mike Lawrie gets to make millions while building and ceating nothing. The company has no culture and no soul. People are cattle and seen as costs or line items in a Spreadsheet.

2.0
Apr 25, 2015

Great at first, quickly went downhill

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people were top notch and very collaborative. Everyone wanted to iterate on unique solutions.

Cons

The CEO is possibly one of the worst ones that I have ever seen. When he first came in, he did make all the right moves in consolidating a previously fragmented company. However, he has cut so far into the bone, that quality of services took a hit. It turned from a collaborative company to one that was paranoid and fearful.

1.0
Mar 23, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

After my 11 year run with CSC since being outsourced from Motorola, I'd have to say the biggest "PRO" was working from home. The pay was competitive, the benefits use to be good but that too has changed. Lower management was sincere, helpful, and cared. But their hands are tied up with upper management needs/demands.

Cons

The COE. Mike Laurey is probably getting a huge bonus for his "POD" implementation, but he is only screwing the hard, over-worked employees even more. Many companies are adopting the POD philosophy but in support NOT physical location. Moving all your talent to a POD does not save the company money NOR promote a healthy work environment. I lost my job as I refused to moved from Arizona to Pittsburg. I've always been in the top 15% of my peers for job performance but none of that mattered. Remote work is no longer being offered, only work from PODs. The benefits have slowly degraded over the years. Vacations must be used by certain times, roll overs have been greatly reduced, vacation were forced to accommodate policy, not your schedule, and not all vacation time is treated the same, very confusing. Pension plans died, and not sure what the current 401k is like anymore. Family/Work life balance is TERRIBLE. On call and long hours are very common and will consume you. These people are slave drivers! It was not uncommon to pull all nighters while on call. Different departments have no respect for each other. The patching team will take down servers then walk away and it's up to the support team to figure out what happened, etc... I could go on here all day... but you get the drift.... STAY AWAY!

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