Where to start! I would give this company 4 stars, provided 4 stars were the substitute for a swear word, as this company is total 4 stars.
In Erskine, I do not know of anyone who is not actively looking for a new job. The reasons are manifold, but can be broadly broken down to:
1. Poor pay.
2. No recognition for a job well done.
3. Utterly worthless management across nearly all levels from the top down (especially at the top).
4. No training.
5. The most disorganised company I have ever worked for; you have no idea where resources are, you have to find them yourself. most of the time. If you do then invariably they cannot help you (especially in support functions such as HR or internal IT support).
6. Constant cost-cutting; prime example, there was a requirement to attend a customer site to install a system. Expenses policy now limit you to not even being able to afford breakfast AND dinner in a Premier Inn.
Unbelievably bureaucratic; another example, the travel policy now requires 11 levels of approval.
7. No stationery. Really, you cannot get a ballpoint pen from these people.
8. Evidence of money being wasted despite all these cost-cutting measure. For example, it is mandatory to do an online course called "Spartans White Belt". For those not in the know, this is a scheme by some director to teach all non-sales personnel how to do sales. The training takes a day or more with some frankly ridiculous videos on the intranet, followed by an exam, and it is all aimed at "upselling to the customer". Problem is, on our site 90% of our customers are the government. The number of times the Secretary of State for Defence or the Prime Minister have popped by to ask me about our SAP HANA offering... Absolutely worthless but they have this money to create the training materials and also actual embroidered white belts for those who pass and then shipped from the USA to the rest of the world, meanwhile staff working away cannot get their meals paid for by the company.
9. No pay rises for years. Although our esteemed leaders granted themselves nearly $40million in bonuses, which is weird as the company allegedly has "no money" and is "seeing a downturn".
10. Redundancies. Redundancies everywhere. Every 3 months you will be in a pool to be made redundant, unless enough member of your team have resigned since the last time.
11. Left hand doesn't know what the right is doing. For instance, making 400 people redundant in Erskine, while also spending millions to refurbish a warehouse as office space for 400 people.
12. Internal processes make absolutely no sense. They are also not consistent across teams.
13. Staff morale? Haven't seen that in all the time I've worked here.
14. Staff are treated like a commodity. I actually saw an email saying "congratulations to the resources" once a project completed (thanks to the way DXC 'work' you'd be amazed how infrequently a project completes on time and/or under-budget).
15. Siloisation. This place is so siloed you'll end up being a notepad expert but have no skills in anything else. This is both inefficient and demoralising for staff.
16. Project managers. I have yet to meet a project manager here who can manage to do anything. They certainly cannot manage projects. If anyone ever came to me and said they previously worked as a PM at DXC I'd reject them on that alone.
