Don't get too good at what you do. In most other companies, that would mean a certain promotion. Here, you can get stuck in your role easily. Your manager will not want to let you go because you make him/her look good. All your hard work will be for their benefit and not yours. Mediocrity is the way to go.
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@2bfe+1ccXTA9B - So true was always like this at CSC under lawr' ie leadership followed by DXC merging and the same thing is still no change with Mikey-2; learn the hard way only do minimum contractual hours, learn as much from internal free training and don't give away any knowledge or help others - they just ride on your coat tails and take credit for your work.
Survivors at DXC have one premier skill - They present the knowledge and creative accomplishments of others as being their own. And While they do that they are constantly looking at ways to deny airplay and recognition to those that they are using.
If anyone asks you for help at DXC, do not help them unless the give you a Time code upfront (they never will)
Consider the situation as being that you are a lamb, in discussion with a pack of wolves about what's for dinner
Very similar experience here so I decided to move out. Always getting "1" rating, bigger responsibilities and getting much bigger output (on the team's metric). I am stucked at lower level than my peers who are principals as they were at that level since they were hired ages ago. No promotion despite boss always benefiting on my achievement as 90% off the time he presents that as team achievement to the senior executives. Note also that this is very common in DXC for most ES employees (bigger responsibility and role/lower level).
Every Manager should want their team to excel at what they do or make sure they are given the opportunity to excel. Being 'stuck in a role' implies you've been actively stopped from moving internally. You've either got the wrong manager or are in a single point of failure role. Sitting there and promoting everyone to be mediocre is not fair on yourself or them and if you are denied opportunities internally you should seek them externally. Forget DXC.
Just because your good at what you do, doesn't mean you will be good at anything else. In a previous company I was great at my technical position and then was promoted to a working manager and then to a Director . I wasn't aa good manager or a good director and lucky for me I went back to a technical position at my next job!