Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

But do me a favor: The next time you fire a laggard employee please call it what it is… A layoff. The term “workforce rebalancing” is an insult to thousands of U.S. technology workers who want to climb that next technology hill — but aren’t given the opportunity to do so.

Doesn't make any logical sense to stick with a company that is dying. There's so much opportunity now (cloud security, Cyber Sec, AWS, DevSecOps, Azure Specialists. They are paying quite large salaries now. I am getting emails all the time for my role and I am not even looking. If I was younger I'd be jumping around a bit, but at the moment I am happy where I am. Good Team. Good Job satisfaction and no stress. Pocket money till I retire.

There's a big difference going to client country to country and I get the impression that dxc in the UK is much better than America. I've met so many people at dxc CSC and later especially EDS who were non-billable, and effectively I was paying their salaries for them to goof around

IMO, people at a certain level at DXC are just there to suck money from the company and not giving 2 sh*ts about the employees. If you can, get what skills training you can and get out. Since I left, my current company is doing a lot of Azure Cloud Computing. Also just about anything Security is also a smart move. Remember, knowledge doubles almost every 2 years and technology will follow this. If you've not updated your skills you are left behind. GLTYA

BTW, I'm doing the best I've ever done from a compensation perspective. I mean really well! Thank God for that.

Well my people manager is great, my functional managers are pretty darn good too. Anyone above those levels don't seem to have a clue now to run a successful business, the HR lead and CEO are an a-ho-e's!

The company doesn’t know what it wants to be, are we an outsourcer , if so we should using our expertise and using technology that we think is the best not the other way around. Are we just bodies and use what ever technology they see fit, if so very how to scale and leverage resources as you need to be an expert in too many.
Are we a Cloud services company?
Do management even know?

I can truthfully say that the slightly less than 2 years I spent at DXC was the worst time of my entire (30 year plus) career in the technology industry.

Turning up for work on Mondays, wondering if some of your colleagues would have been made redundant without your knowledge.

Trying to explain to clients why their key project team members have vanished. In some cases, this meant that DXC could no longer meet our commitment to that client.

Trying to work out which of the good people in my team to make redundant, and which ones to keep, whilst under threat of redundancy myself (6 times in < 2 years)

Trying to explain to my team that despite their great performance there would be no raise and no bonus, whilst wondering why I wasn't getting raise / bonus after scoring a '1' at appraisal

Ultimately, this was a company whose behaviour was so at odds with my own values (and also at odds with their own published values) that I quit without a job to go to.

I can relate to this in depth. I've handed by resignation near the end of last year due to bullying and the toxic atmosphere at DXC. Till this day, I'm working part-time to cover my bills so I can attend counselling for my near burn-out experiences.