Luckily I forced myself to negotiate as high as I could with the salary offer, so I'm good for a while. But are pay rises really not a thing? Not even a cost of living increase? Not even a pathetic 1% raise every 2 years? Do any of you know ANYONE close to you who has got a raise in the last 5 years or so?
If not, that is insane. If 2 years go by with absolutely nothing then I'll probably move on.
Nothing for more than 20 years
@pn+1jnh7fjb1 There is no way I'm staying at DXC until I'm 70. Currently can't see me lasting the year out. Just using the chaos everyone else creates to complete some personal projects while I wait for access, training and a plan!
I left DXC years ago. The toxic environment was affecting my state of mind and then it does, unfortunately, start to flow into your home-life whereby your partner has to listen to your bad day - and that's not a good for anyone.
Having left, I can't say I've had merit rises, since my starting salary at my new firm was much higher than the DXC pay for a similar role, which made me realise how low they must have been paying me, but I can say that I had 2 annual cost of living rises by 4% in FY24 and again in FY25. These rises were mandatory across everyone, so it superseded any need for pay/performance reviews. Plus, I accrue 1 day additional leave for every year of service, after the 2 initial years and the ability to buy additional days (no cap) and ability to carry 1 week over each FY with no constraint on when you have to take them. None of that "Quick, use all your holiday before we have to declare the debt owned on our annual end of year figures" nonsense.
I think the more valuable thing (other than salary and leave) is the actual work environment, at any place you work. A place where people are generally happier and yes, in any business you can get one or two people who might moan about something, but its usually a short-lived mood and nowhere near the levels I experienced at DXC, where nearly everyone wasn't happy pretty much most of the time! It even spilled out onto a CEO call where he ended up shouting at everyone!
Once you leave, you will find the reduction in red-tape and barriers to customer delivery is quite liberating and your ability to focus on delivery is increased ten-fold. No more having to write endless business justifications and jump over a tonne of HR walls and complete things multiple times on multiple systems, just because DXC don't have the ability to architecture their own internal systems and processes, to ensure optimisation to meet the levels that they claim to offer to their customers.
If you've started on a good salary, then use a year or two to gain experience and then use that to springboard yourself up and out into some of the new leading edge tech companies. I don't think DXC (from what I've since read on here) will have much to offer you career or pay-wise, but you will gain experience with a diverse set of customers. You need to be active at managing your manager and reaching out to managers (or staff) of the area or project you'd like to join and effectively push your own career. But don't stay longer than 2 or 3 years, since you'll be losing time to progress. If you stay, you will unfortunately be burned out by trying to circumvent or suffer a lot of internal process barriers being created by HR and "Leaders" to curtail your ability to deliver effectively to your customers. If you are every offered money to stay - don't, since I guarantee you will get a lot more out of leaving (for the right company) than just money.
1% in total for the last 3 years. It truly is a sh1t company.
personally DXC is OK if you want to coast somewhere until retirement and you're happy on the T&Cs... but that's mostly either new joiners like yourself that got really good terms, or OGs on legacy contracts like the odd RMG veterans, and Urenco folk
Otherwise its not really sustainable long term. That said... if you want a role change internally, its not a terrible way to shift and "learn" on the job and use it as a stepping stone elsewhere... just don't expect much. If you can get equipment ordered, do what you can as it isnt properly tracked. I kept a lot of my stuff, I got an ergonomic mouse, headset and eyestrain comfort monitor out of it among other stuff.
Use and abuse the company, they will happily do the same to you.
Ex-CSC turned DXCite here
I joined in 2016 as an apprentice on £14k for my first year, got a raise at the year end to £18k as agreed... and that was the only major change even as I was siphoned through roles done by people anywhere from £30k > £50k - then in 2020 I was "generously" given a 5% increase to £19k by the GSS lead.... and that was really it. I complained and made a point of the workload and role I was doing... nothing. The only bump we got was a £40 monthly increase in 2021. I formally applied and was approved for an internal role change for something that on average paid between £35k to £50k in this industry, and was promised a pay rise of £30k within 6 months April 2022.... that never materialised. Instead, I had the manager, some jobsworth in Bulgaria, promise me an "incremental" pay bump to £42k over 5 "incremental" pay rises that would span years...
I left for another company paying me more than double what I was making at DXC, and the only offer I got was to do it within 2 pay rises... only to find a few weeks after I left NOBODY was getting a pay rise that year, it was all lies.
I knew one other person who got a significant pay rise, bit over £10k, and that was literally because they were the only person doing a significant architecture role for the BAE account and had been given a job offer elsewhere.... otherwise they'd have got diddly squat.
My suggestion, do what your job requires of you and no more. Look elsewhere if you want a pay rise in the future.
Welcome to the cesspool.
Join the queue - they'll get round to you in about 2032 as things stand. You might budget 1.5% - 2%. Your best bet is to get out and tell your next employer it's just not what you thought it would be. No point waiting around DXC does not do pay rises.
VPs and company officers don’t get pay rises. They get bonuses. Regular employees don’t get regular pay rises. If you are in a low cost country you may get a small annual pay rise. If you are in a high cost country (eg US, UK, France,…) you most likely won’t get a raise for years. When you do it will be 1 or 2 percent if you’re lucky. Time will tell if the new chief people officer will be able to change that. If DXC doesn’t grow and doesn’t increase profits, the chance of a pay rise goes down, even if your group is successful.
Thanks for the responses guys
Yes you definitely aren't getting a raise because you've come in at the top of the pay band which excludes you from even the pathetic once every five years 1%.
You'll understand why everyone around you are dragging their feet now at least.
You also won't get a promotion if you are anywhere other than a low cost off shore location... Company policy.
Welcome to DXC
31 % raise since 2016, not promotions just yearly union agreed raises, join your union, pays off !
DXC staff who were at the inception of this all-the-bits-of-IT-services-that-no-one-else-wants company back in 2017 are now 40% worse off due to practically no pay rises and the effects of inflation. So that's why most of them don't work Monday's and Friday's to compensate.
The people with titles including the words OFFICER or VP get 30+% increases. The people with System, Technology, Support, Programmer, or Analyst in their titles got less than 1% last year. A sinking ship. You'd think the company's primary product was telling people to take more AI training, because the guys that give those orders are getting rich. Figure your raise to be the CPI minus a few %. Your wealth will go backwards at DXC.
I've gotten a 2% raise once in five years.
There have been small pay rises for a very small group of people. But it depends highly on your geography.