EDS, a HP company

Having worked at EDS now for nearly 8 years - I can honestly say that it is one of the worst run organisations I have ever had the pleasure to work for.

There are way too many managers whose job appears to be monitoring a spreadsheet. i.e. they are not managers at all... This has been a growth industry at EDS for the last 8 years so I know there is plenty of fat to cut.

As a techie I have watched (and complained) as these managers have continuously reduced the budgets based on no evidence whatsoever. They cut budgets because that is what they need to do to meet their stupid targets set from above. This means we often have too few people when it matters and then dozens of fire fighters later. They dont understand the concept of risk management preferring to stick their heads up their a***s and hope for the best.

Financial control is a joke. There isnt any. We seem to spend every penny the customer gives us often robbing Peter to pay Paul (firefighters) which is not ethical and maybe illegal. As a tax payer it makes my blood boil to see how unprofessional this outfit is. The customer doesnt understand, or cares not to, the concept of a cost benefit analysis. They keep asking for new features costing 10s of 1000s that will only affect a handful of customers. No commercial business would do this!

And then we have cheapShore. This appears to be the only game in town for our executives - both previous EDS and now HP. They may cost less but they are nowhere near as good as us despite what they say, make lots of mistakes and the customer is starting to notice and complain. However, unlike us they can be bullied (exploited) into working all hours with no pay - how ethical is that?

Amongst the EDS staff on each project there are many heroes keeping things going despite EDS processes and management. If 3000 are let go then they will be cutting a lot of these people. EDS, an HP company will lose lots of UK Government contracts as project after project fails. What is worse is that our Government is colluding in this cheapShore exercise!