Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

If you do most of the courses properly they take a lot longer than their pure run time. There's no time for real work!! A 5hr course can take all week to do. Because you can't just listen and stuff this knowledge down. They take time to properly digest and understand. Otherwise there's no point doing them.

@4sq HR are also on WFR, so good luck getting anyone to update your record. I've tried twice now.

He listed a bunch of stuff in the email which counted - podcasts, books etc - nothing to stop you from lying that you've listened to a bunch of corporate guff on your lunch for 40 hours.

I filed my external learning form a couple of weeks ago, as I'd already done some training. Usual black hole! Waste of time. Fight to get anything done. Well when you say I've not done it we can argue that I have....

In my opinion DXC will go down as the most corrupt company in IT Services. Look at what the CEO just did also. He would NEVER qualify for a C level role at any services firm but talked the board into granting him 44m in stock after issuing the worst guidance in 7 years.
And to keep the CFO on board he got 21m. And the. They put a ton of people in positions they are not qualified for and gave them stock and salaries they would never receive at a competitor. All this while making massive cuts to the workforce including people actually doing real work at customers. Unbelievable and the board just watches.

I learn something every day. But it doesn't come though sitting through boring training sessions. It comes from having a need and working out how best to do it, and playing with the technology to find out what it's capable of. But you can't measure that, so it doesn't count. Let the training session play to itself is all you can do.

@105

It is never about the certification, but the progress of getting the certification. If your idea of getting certification is about an indian guru trainer going through the answers of 1000 qns from a certain qns bank 3 days prior to the test, then......

@105 I agree the training is worthless, the certs mean nothing. Only being able to do the job counts. Just that DXC doesn't recognise this quality in it's staff. You can be sure the new people will be on higher salaries and not have a clue.

Certification means you can study useless information and take a test and pass. I only have 1 cert from many years ago in Legato Networker before EMC purchased it and before I worked at CSC/DXC

Most of the people I helped with backup and recovery software had CERT’s in the products they had issues with and they came to me for help.

Having a CERT and knowing how to debug a problem is vastly different things

Never took a CERT test at DXC and was a subject mater expert for the team I was on and also to support run teams around the world

@wx On the basis you can't even get real work done by colleagues who sit next to you around here. I don't imagine anything will happen with the submissions I made. It's probably just a tick box on the application, but DXC doesn't trust us to not fill it with garbage. Back to not changing anything because customers don't use DXC to make improvements, we're only here to run legacy systems into the ground.

@wb

Yes adhoq is via a cr@ppy form. Don't think it needs manager approval though.

I would ask why you can't just straight add it but that needs skill at building systems and dxc just loves a cr-p form for some g1mp to type back in by hand...

How do you add adhoc training to your record? I could only find a form where you have to ask HR to do it for you which no doubt requires your managers approval. Seems like a sure fire way to waste a lot of management time. And if your manager isn't interested in this easier then you'll not get your record updated no matter how genuine your submission is.

Done all those. Java, AWS, been AIed out. Just talk to it, and you'll work out what it's good at and what it needs prompting on. Not used any of it in DXC, we have a system. It can't be touched unless the client wants a change. Even when it's breaks and there's a fix to be written. They won't put the effort behind testing it. They just want a manual quick fix so it can get running again. Have done so many courses over the years. I never get to use it here. And just doing the course doesn't make you an expert. It basically is just another DXC form that's more important to them than real work as usual.

@q7

Join the AI bandwagon!

@q3 Oracle Java

Anyone who can find 40 hrs of meaningful, quality training to develop themselves has given up and should just quit now.

What should I learn that's actually useful? There's no way my client will be making use of any if this new fangled cloud stuff before I'm long gone. They don't want us to touch it. Just watch it rot is the official line. So on that basis what skills does the market want right now?

@b6

You could sell your certification status to non dxc partners, if the certification has such an incentive program.

@a6

Well said

@g9

Which certification?

Azure, AWS and google voucher are free, provided you bother to sign up for a partner account with your dxc email.

But yes, the training program is pretty haphazard run. Example, the AWS glacier program.

Poor training materials, poor distribution of vouchers, people can't find the simplest admin instructions, etc....

@a1

Those are not enough to fill up the 40 yrs.

My pro tips is just go to dxc learning, pick your favorite udemy course/or a longer course and quickly skim through it.

40 hrs done in a flasj

Just book it to the BAE WBS, it's the default timebooking code

Why do you think DXC charge BAE so much PM time....

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1sf0bwE0

Is anyone taking the 'competency tests, and what happens if you don't?

@dr As good as that sounds, if staff can allocate half a day every 2 weeks for this purpose, they clearly don't have enough work to do.

Yeah, my manager forced my colleagues and me to add some certifications to our goals—even though they weren’t the latest versions and were expected to become irrelevant within the next two years. This was because the issuing corporation had changed its release cycle from once a decade to every few years.

As it turned out, nobody actually pursued them because the requirements were pretty unreasonable. First, you had to purchase a test coupon out of pocket, costing a few hundred dollars, just to take a two-hour exam from home. The conditions were strict: your webcam had to be on, showing a clear view of you and your desk, while a corporate proctor monitored both your camera feed and your desktop activity.

On top of that, you had to install a spyware-like application through which the exam would be conducted. The cost would only be reimbursed if you passed.

The practice test was full of “gotcha” questions—obscure edge cases and overly academic, unrealistic scenarios that felt more like something from a university exam. It focused heavily on internal technical details. Preparing for it could easily take a few hundred hours, and the actual two-hour exam had to be taken in your personal time.

In the end, nobody bothered to go through with it. We were stuck using a legacy version of the technology that was already unsupported, with no realistic hope of upgrading anytime soon. Eventually, some of my colleagues left voluntarily, while the rest—including me and my manager—were laid off.

They don't want or need you to learn anything and certainly they aren't giving you time to do it or a wbs code.

No, this is so they can get on an investors call and say "our employees did nine million hours of training last year"...

I mean they are saying it can include attending townhalls ffs.

Yeah I learn so much from those.. Like how out of touch our leaders are.

I expect as usual there will be no reward for doing it. And no consequences if you don't. But he company can say it has a strong learning ethic in all it's media feeds.

A friend works in a tech company. They get half a day every other week which is allocated for training and development. They put it in their calendar and work from home. The point being it's all scheduled in and part of their working day!!

If I was still be with DXC, I'd be asking what WBS code do you book it to, the answer from my manager would be use a billable code.

Glad I'm no longer with this toxic company.

I was promised training on a new technology, but it never materialised. So I took the initiative, learned it myself, and became just as capable as those who completed the course. In fact, we all agreed this was the smarter route — faster, more efficient, and less disruptive.

Yet instead of being recognised for that effort and competence, I’ve been told I don't qualify for the same salary as new hires because I lack the formal certificate.

This sums up the real problem at DXC: there's no mechanism to reward people who take initiative and deliver. Instead, the system rewards attendance and paperwork over results. It’s demoralising to know that I could walk out tomorrow and the company would gladly rehire someone else to do the same job — but on 25% more — rather than acknowledge my actual value.

And you wonder why morale is at an all time low, and people are leaving.

EVERY course I ever took in Storage was FREE to me, and Cert tests too. I don't believe in CERTS so never took them. Me with No Certs always helping those with them.

A cert means you can study a bunch of useless facts and take a test. The real meat is if you can use what you learn in real life. Facts I can always look up in a manual, Use Google or an AI bot

The courses we probably really need are not free. They certainly don't seem to want you to go get a certificate. You can do any of the pre-packaged online training you like. Anyone looking to move on has already been taking advantage. He's not offering you an afternoon off every couple of weeks to do it. Make more space for DXC in your personal life seems to be the assumption.

Do it, its FREE, your paid to take it and it will help you find a better job with someone else. It's a Win-Win

Those 40 hours are for Standards of business conduct, ethics training and mandatory security trainings. Please make every effort to complete them. While you are at it, please ensure that you fill out the timesheets in all the four systems.