
Um I have a job interview with them wondering should I be concerned .
Mike Klaus, the boss of DXC Technology’s $4bn Applications Services business has left the building, sources have informed The Register. In a memo sent to staff last night - emailed to the Brit contingent this morning - DXC CEO Mike Lawrie thanked the exec for his time near the top of the org chart and unveiled his immediate …
If you can find a job doing internal IT for a company rather than working for an IT services provider which provides IT services to external customers, it's always better. Rather than being able to do quality work, you're pressured to do cheap work. The top focus is on providing service as cheaply as possible in order to compete with the Indian offshore firms.
I wouldn't touch them with a disinfected bargepole mate. It is just CSC and the bits of EDS that HP didn't manage to destroy merged together to be whittled away for Mike Laurie's personal profit.
If you do get a job you will have see no pay increases or bonuses while you wait to be made redundant in favour of your offshore successor.
Get a job in an IT department of a big firm if you can. The focus will be on the business not just cost cutting.
Get a job in an IT department of a big firm if you can. The focus will be on the business not just cost cutting.
Until the Beancounters and PHB's decide to offshore the whole IT department and all the Kit with it that is and hang GDPR.
There really is no future in IT in this Country. 90% of IT is going offshore within 5 years. Brexit will only speed this up as TUPE gets quietly dropped and it will solve the IR35 problem as well. That's my prediction which isn't worth a bent penny.
HMG will be back to doing everything on paper.
No future in IT?? That is absurd. Let’s not confuse the need for specific expertise in areas of Cloud and Converged Infrastructure. Becoming a SME in growth areas of IT makes you invaluable. So, yes you may go work for a company which then Outsources. That is different than no future in IT. That is a business model. Also, not every company is going to outsource. I’ve worked to support outsourcers as well as with companies who utilize them. No company if any size and complexity will put all their IT in someone else’s hands and will keep specific functions within.
Ask them what the DXC acronym stands for: they will most likely tell you that it was cooked up by a marketing company to replace CSC and HPE (formerly EDS) on the occasion of their merger. That would be combining the D from EDS and XC from Ex-CSC to form DXC.
Insiders say that is an acronym, replacing CSC's "Crime Scene Cleanup" with DXC's "Don't Xpect Competency!"
Officially DXC wasn't an acronym but they said the 'X' meant the company was a 'force multiplier' whatever that means. One of the seniors once said on a call that DXC meant 'Digital Transformation Company'.
The reality is that they wanted something with three letters with an 'X' in the middle to make the logo easier and DXC was available as a US stock ticker symbol.