It's tough for laid-off workers and fresh grads right now. I've been looking at job listings, and it's not looking good. The few companies that are hiring have the upper hand, snagging skilled workers at bargain rates. Honestly, I can't stand DXC, but I have to admit I'm thankful to still have my job.
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All hope is lost. Any rise will be an insult. Take November off sick. It wont make a blind bit of difference. The clients are already lining up replacements. Hopefully they are bringing the lifeboat for the good staff. That's the only glamour of hope.
@3djn+1vgbFQFa do the maths... Dxc has got itself into such a hole with salaries that it can't dig itself out. The cost of fixing it is too much.
The growth they needed never came and the enthusiasm needed for it to happen is gone now too.
Death spiral is all that's left.
In the meantime the top dogs just trouser all they can while the clock ticks down.
What DXC is hoping on is that nobody really wants to leave, so it will continue to pay you the same salary as last moth, and the year before, and the year before that pretty much indefinitely. What it fails to grasp is people are giving up. You can't seem to get a thing done in the organisation. It could resolve all that and align team salaries so that nobody feels they are being taken advantage of. Even if that means booting a few layabouts out the door and sending a clear message that there's still a job to be done. But it won't, it can't, and it'll therefore not exist much longer, as the people who still want a job are actively seeking to convince the clients to switch supplier.
Depends where you are and what your skillset is.
From my own personal perspective, there's lots of suitable things out there but I'm looking for the perfect combo.
If I needed work, its there - just maybe not in the form that would make me leave my current employer by choice.
I’ve been with DXC for 5 years, I just been offered new job.
Listen pal
There’s nothing like snagging workers at bargain prices compared to DXC, I’d go as far as saying most people are paid 70% less than the market rate.
So by your id--tic argument, the bargain rates are errr 20% less than DXC pay?
We ain't all got the gift of the gab. Able to bullsh-t our way into any job opening on top dollar. Most of the super genius, autistic, tech nerds that keep the server lights on are not sales people. They would struggle to sell water in a drought. But they can write some pretty cool code if only you just let them get on with it instead of insisting on knowing how long it will take and then wanting a 200 page document to detail what ends up being a 3 function java class. But even those tech nerds have had enough, and realised maybe it's not worth fighting to keep it going. The clients want it to fail, DXC wants it to fail. Now you all have to spend way more than it would have cost to do it properly in the first place. We did say - but you don't listen to us.
Got laid off and got a job 2 weeks later...think it's a bit exaggerated