rating for Electronic Data Systems

Dismal, yet an opportunity posted on March 25, 2007

The good:

They seem to hire anyone with a bachelor's degree and a minimal csci background. This is great for someone like myself who didn't go the intern route. You can "intern" with EDS and move on, if it's right to do so.

EDS is only interested in keeping it's "top performers" (the top 25% rated by management). The rest of the people (the lower 75%) have no reason to expect any salary increase ever - unless they can get into the top 15% at some later date. This is exactly what I was told, when I pressed the issue at our training session.

Doesn't it stand to reason that a company would want to at least compensate an average, or slightly above average employee with a cost of living increase? Not so with EDS. Even the few long time top performers I talked with felt underpaid in their fields given their experience and above average performances.

If you want a shot out of school this is a good place to intern for a bit, but you better really be something special for several years if you have any aspirations of receiving an industry standard wage in the technical arena there.

The bad:

I was hired to work at the EDS El Paso solution center as a fresh CSCI grad in 2005. Their initial salary offer was 28,000$ US currency for a full time Information Analyst position. I asked why this number was so low. They told me it as based on their regional salary study of the area.

As it turns out, there weren't many CSCI jobs near El Paso EXCEPT for the positions EDS had in the nearby (~15 miles) city of Juarez, Mexico. You see EDS has a center in Juarez that pays perhaps +-23,000$ in wages. So they based our wages off this lowly skewed regional wage range.

They also bring people from Juarez, Mexico over to work in El Paso (legally), and pay them a low wage to work on lucrative US Medicaid contracts. I can only guess as to where those savings end up.

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