Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

Not much of a surprise to me ... it's window dressing : employees are being asked by our marketing department to post (positive) reviews on Glassdoor.

A manager told me that they are encouraged to post good reviews on glassdoor and other local portals to spike up the rating.
Since he's an honest and sincere guy, he's not doing it.

I suspect that HR pads the posts otherwise they couldn't hire even our cheaper replacements.

Dxc did the same last year: a sudden spike in extreme ‘good reviews’ in the space of 4 weeks from the same areas that spoke in general terms and used Similar language.

Because many people write a review after they leave a company, you'd expect a surge in reviews after a large layoff, but you would also expect them to lean to the negative side. (Although, it's perfectly possible to be laid off from a great place to work.) But a flood of positive reviews is a pretty good signal that there's a problem.

If it's either the worst place in the world or the best place in the world, someone is not telling the truth. If there are extreme views, either someone probably has an ax to grind or someone is pressuring people for good reviews.

Be wary where the reviews illicit the extremes. We apply the same psychology to amazon. We would rather buy a 4 star product with lots of reviews than a 5 star product with fewer reviews.

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. If many people repeat the same talking points, there might be a problem. You can see this pattern in the 2018 fake reviews injected for DXC UK Chesterfield and DXC Newcastle of which the reality Was somewhat different with Chesterfield on the verge of closure.

Of course the honesty is gleaned from colleagues after a new start joins the company and if the expectations are vastly different, that can also leave a bad feeling and a negative review, as has been the case here both on here and on glassdoor where many newstarts regret their decision to join, because there is no work for them or they have found themselves at the back of a queue of layoffs.

99% of "good" Glassdoor reviews done in the last 2 years are completely false. DXC have an internal team directly responsible for manipulating the results.

The company is 2-3 years from being absolved. All of the internal tools,teams have pretty much left or got WFR. Yes they cut out the last of the senior people. Well if you mean senior 2 years after merger because massive layoffs before the merger then after have left most teams bare bones to none. The management continue to sell sell sell BS to people. This company is going to be in the gutters in 2-3 years where even internal systems will not even function to get people through the door.

Two thirds of the 6500 glassdoor responses would not recommend a friend or approve of the CEO. Of those that praise the CEO, a quarter of those are former employees and liked it so much they left.

There are common themes in most of the posts of poor planning, communication, strategic planning and the toxic atmosphere. There are far more of those than the grammatically correct prose of many years experience and strategic insight that allows a balanced and critical defence that only a 6 week apprentice could wax lyrical on.

‘I’ve worked for DXC for 3 years (ever since its inception 2 years ago) and it has done wonders for my career (of which this is my first job). I have learnt so much (I did a CBT all about ethics of which I now have one). I’ve got to work with some leading edge technology (they bought me a headset). i’ve had excellent communication from all levels (my RFA went to 4 levels before it was finally rejected). I get to work on sole projects (I’m the only one left on my team) and great great support from everyone from the bottom up (I regularly get shafted). Advice to management: get up of your asses more often to allow more of us apprentices the chance to kiss more of those cheeks more often and thus make the whole a—kissing process far more effective and efficient. This place is 2G2BT

DXC is actively working with the internal marketing and communications division and external agencies (in India and elsewhere) to populate Glassdoor with positive reviews. I have been on a global call when was discussed recently. It's sharp practise at best! I assume therefore that most of these reviews are not "genuine" and that the overall rating is artificially inflated. This just goes to show how much DXC has been hurt for treating its staff so badly and the desperate measures it is having to go to try and arrest this.

Plenty of punters overseas and managers seemed to be putting 5/5 positive reviews to try (possibly multiple times and under multiple email addresses) and bump the score up and to offset the negative reviews.

Hopefully any punter who is going for a job at DXC can look at multiple review sites and pick out the fakes from the real reviews