Am an Engineer transferring back with Beltway to DXC - what's the company like to work for now it's DXC compared to 7 years ago when it was CSC.
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Not looking forward to transferring to DXC. Sounds like a dead end company.
Sound we will have to go a number of years without bonuses and pay rises as were on much higher pay due to our increases.
I'll miss AT&T guaranteed rises every year same time March, no slippage or change of dates to extend 1 year to 18 month reviews.
Wont be busting a gut in terms of work output.
I've no idea what the new DXC Networks org structure will look like, but suspect cheap as possible with management in the US and apart from a few pairs on hands on the ground, everything else run from a low cost centre in Indian or similar.
If they bring you over in the first place as an onshore resource, you'll be in the crosshairs for WFR/no raises/Project Diamond (see the thread on that here).
My advice, don't bank on being around for longer than short term....
Not looking forward to going to DXC after years of rises and bonuses and the latest one I have got we will be classed as much higher rate than DXC staff.
So going on experience not much chance of getting a rise for the next year(s).
I'll see what happens to DXC staff if they will ever get a rise sometime this year as cant trust what's keeps been promised on Town Halls, all hot air so far.
Hope they keep delaying the rise I might strike lucky and get 2 rises in one year.
If not I'll be moving on.
If you have had pay rises and acquired skills, I wouldn’t advise going back to DXC if you can help it. The Clients only see DXC as a network provider these days and ITO is old school 1993-2010. DXC will freeze your pay and overload you as they are working on the expectation that everyone can do the work of 2.3 - 3.2 people now.
All decisions are now removed from you and you need approval if you want to tie your shoelace. DXC doesn’t have a strategy for growth as its direction is unclear about what it stands for these days and as a result the debt grows whilst the revenue continues to decline (it’s not even stabilised either) forcing top management to sell divisions off periodically.
It’s a dying business in the sense that unless you are a grad wanting to get a few initial steps on the ladder, it doesn’t hold any promise to those of you who are experienced and looking for a sideways or in this case a backwards career move.
The prestige of the branding couldn’t hold up a dying company for long and many of the big named hedge fund investors reduced their stock investment in 2019 when they could see the announced targets for growth and return were being revised down all the time.
The atmosphere is not team, collaborative, exciting (as it should be) its more ‘watch your back’ and try to survive. Keep your head down. Don’t have an opinion on anything. Do your surveys, timesheets, turn up for appraisal with person you have never met before and never will, fill out the surveys which will never see the light of fish again and do as little as possible in the current culture. If voluntary redundancy is offered, then bite heir hand off...as you could always make more doing contracting for what you are doing now.
The major point here is that DXC is choosing to on-shore a critical service that manages traffic up to and through DXC front door! If this exercise is treated with same level of planning and investment normally applied, we are going to be reading about DXC In the security press very soon - for all the wrong reasons...
Individual staff treatment will be a factor PHB: "why is that engineer paid so well"? PO: "Oh, there good, actually knows what there doing"? PHB: "Can we afford that"?
DXC execs are comical, just like PHB they do not understand the difference between things you cannot afford and things you cannot afford *not to do!
Hard to say whether DXC desired passionately to insource or whether ATT wanted to ditch the business.
Bit of both I believe is actually true...
ATT worked out good for everyone moved onto Beltway, well apart from CSC itself that is.
A daft bit of Mikey spreadsheet gymnastics to earn himself another fist full of dollars, but sadly far from the only time he did something stupid to line his own pockets.
Transferring back to DXC from AT&T because DXC decided to terminate the contract instead of extending it so 'Networks' is being insourced back to DXC. It isn't by choice we are going back to DXC, if they make us an offer and we don't go back then AT&T said will be affectedly 'resigning' from AT&T.
@OP+19BXGL43 We will be higher paid than a lot of the DXC staff, due to their lack of pay rises, I wonder how long till we get WFR, I’m not on a Beltway account so will be going back later.
Not looking forward to it to be honest.
You want to sprint away from this place. Anyone leaving ANY current job to work for DXC has either suffered a debilitating stroke or had a frontal lobotomy. You’d be better off rolling nude in broken glass.
What's the whole story? Why did CSC transfer you to at&t? Why is AT&t transferring you to dxe?
Good lord, I'm so sorry for you! Get the h3ll as far away as you can, as fast as you can.