The word on the street is that nobody wants to sign-up with DXC. Is that a surprise? Just look at all of the unfilled roles that exist in DXC Australia, many of which are security roles that have been vacant for more than 18 months.
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Got offered a job at DXC as a Cloud Engineer, its an excellent offer.
Wondering whether its a good idea to accept it, considering all of what is going on?
How do I sign-up to work at DXC? It would be so great to work in yet another broken company.
To the person in Newcastle, DXC is selling solutions based on AWS and Azure for the cloud component. DXC provides managed services on top of the cl;oud to provide an end to end service.
The other organizations that have cloud advisory services based on AWS (and probably Azure) include PwC, Deloitte and KPMG. I would suggest that any of those organizations will provide more opportunity to learn new skills and gain valuable experiences.
"It's not a proper Cloud. It's a bodge of a solution hacked together to be marketed as Cloud"
In the job description it mentions supporting infrastructure on Azure and AWS, therefore i'm not too sure what you mean by not proper Cloud?
I have significant experience in both AWS and Azure. I'm just not sure how long term of a role it will be and whether my skill set will be enhanced.
"I was thinking about applying for a cloud role at DXC (Newcastle), not sure now. What I don't understand is why hire and get rid?"
It's not a proper Cloud. It's a bodge of a solution hacked together to be marketed as Cloud. I'd steer well clear, if you went there then tried to get a contract role delivering Cloud services on the back of that experience you'd be laughed out of the room.
@U2Uun5i-3cyk : This is a gem of a statement and ultimate truth in DXC:
PPMC is a crock of a tool and unnecessarily keeps an army of approvers employed. WFR the approvers and real cost savings will be achieved.
"I was thinking about applying for a cloud role at DXC (Newcastle), not sure now. What I don't understand is why hire and get rid?"
In some cases DXC is executing the hiring process while also executing redundancies because the market salaries have changed. People who had skills which were short in supply a few years ago meant that HPE or CSC had to pay high salaries to recruit them. Now those same skills may not be in short supply - they can hire at a lower salary, and exit the more expensive employee.
In other cases, where there are seen to be a lot of skilled people in the market the approach is to let people go when they will not be billable because a project ends, and then rehire for new projects.
Both of these approaches treat IT skills as a commodity, and commodities for which pricing is the main purchasing criteria. It is a spreadsheet based decision which sometimes overlooks the cost of hiring, onboarding and any skills or experiences that may have been attained.
You need to determine if the job at DXC will help you develop new skills and provide positive experiences which will increase your market value, and also be an environment where you will enjoy turning up every day. Once you stop attaining new skills, or the environment means you don't enjoy turning up, look for the next role, nothing different to what you should do at DXC or any other company.
The commentaries show that DXC has no ethics or morals. The Annual Code of Conduct Certification stuff obviously does not apply to managers or Mikey. A few years ago one of my colleagues reported an ethics violation and then he was targetted for redundancy. Stay away from DXC if you can.
I was thinking about applying for a cloud role at DXC (Newcastle), not sure now. What I don't understand is why hire and get rid?
The recruiters are also terrible. They could care less if people are hired or not.
Not a good idea at all to hire and fire concurrently. It just shows that DXC will do anything to get rid of expensive yet experienced (and hard-working) employees just to save a few bucks by hiring inexperienced yet clueless graduates that are just brought in at low rates of pay.
Unfortunately the media will focus on the suicide of the employee but clearly Mikey's GF has a moral obligation from a HR perspective to stop the rot and put a stop to this stupid practice.
Normally an employee would be fired if
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their performance does not meet expectations and is performance-managed out
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a serious crime or assault occurred on the workplace
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an employee's role is surplus to requirements and they will have no work to do
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sack contractors if their contract will not be renewed (or a contractor costs more than DXC's low market rates)
PPMC is a crock of a tool and unnecessarily keeps an army of approvers employed. WFR the approvers and real cost savings will be achieved.
You can not make this stuff up - manager has target to let people go, same manager has target to provide PPMC resources. He is firing and hiring at the same time - how is this a good idea?
Bangalore, seriously - in the news the tragic suicide of a DXC employee in Bangalore. The article states he took the action after the separation process was commenced. Employment is important, suicide doesn't solve anything - for those who are feeling they have no way out please seek help.
http://new-democrats.com/tragic-suicide-media-blackout-and-government-apathy-the-plight-of-it-employees/
http://jobs.dxc.technology/ListJobs/All/Search/dxc-location/india/dxc-location/india
869 jobs available in DXC... India
We are on the up!
The door at Erskine is rotating faster than a pulsar, dumped 200 grads and then Mikey announces a graduate recruitment programme. Fincos and DXC's competitors are s---ing all the talent out and guess what?
Everyone knows that DXC is a quarter to quarter pump and dump share scheme. The resources are just the jam in the sourdough sandwich, Mikey's next trick will be to sell of complete units like UKPS to private equity and subcontract it back - keep the revenues and lose the liabilities from the balance sheet. Bank that quarter's share price jump with a tidy L1 bonus. Ker-ching!!