Unisys reviews

Horrible, and I mean horrible place to work. Unless you are a brown nosing, uneducated individual who enjoys 0, yes, zero merit increases every year, this place is not for you. Most middle management has evolved from fixing machines in the 70's-80's and reached their Peter Principle 20 years ago. Individual initiatives are squelched and/or stolen from you and by all means don't try to implement any kind of positive changes. These are perceived as "boat rocking" and usually not understood by the people who are still telling stores about Univac 1. I was a Sr. Director at this ill managed albatross for over 25 years. They have lost most of their major clients like Dell and spend more time trying to find ways to reduce cost versus generating revenue. YOU CANNOT CUT YOUR WAY TO LONG TERM PROFITABILITY! Unisys is a company that is in a continual 15 year downward spiral and has no chance of ever recovering. If you are a young, educated individual who is trying to make a difference and start a career, DO NOT come to Unisys. You will end up leaving within 1-2 years. First you are young and second you are educated both are traits, looked down upon by middle management. Unless you are a good ole boy or crawled around inside machines in your past....Run Away as Fast as You Can! there is a better life out there and that goes for all of you still there who think there is nothing better. Trust me there is. Get out before they push you out to prop up next quarters margin.

Long-term employees were routinely shafted when it came to pay -- long-term suppression of salary increases meant that new employees with far fewer skills were routinely hired at pay scales well above "senior" employees, a total morale killer. To prevent salary stagnation, you must leave Unisys after 2 or 3 years. Projects are almost routinely comically understaffed, and led to work weeks of 100+ hours a week; many people, (myself included) ruined their health, both physical and mental, and many marriages collapsed under the strain (and in some cases, people probably shortened their lives) working for Unisys. I've worked on win teams of "5" people, and later discovered that our competitors' teams were 25 and more. I once worked for 3 weeks straight with timecards of 110+ hours, and 3 months straight of 80 or more hours. That's insanity, and inhumane. Oh, right, in case you're wondering, since you're on salary, not a dime extra for this. Sometimes, they'd allow you to collect an overtime meal allowance, but generally they didn't since the expenses were too high. And should your project succeed, don't expect a big bonus. Big bonuses are paid, just not to the people that do the work -- the executives and "good old boys" who worked 35 hours a week will get the big bonuses for a big win, but only a few dollars find their way to the people that actually did the work. There exists a certain species of vulture at Unisys, a good ole boy network, where the good ole boys will refuse to work on a project (see the 110+ hour work-week comment above), but then, will transfer in just before contract award to take the plum assignments and collect the awards. More than once, I saw people given awards for "winning" projects they didn't technically work on until the contract was already awarded, while the people that did the actual work got nothing (in federal, these pre-contract efforts can last months and years, so this is no small thing.) You can tell when a contract is about to be awarded to Unisys by the flock of "good ole boys" who suddenly turn up in the hallways, picking out their new jobs - jobs that you thought you were gonna get. It took me too long to realize this fact -- and left for a company that actually compensates their employees for succeeding - I literally doubled my pay the first year away from Unisys! I can't imagine I stayed at that place for as long as I did. Every bad employment practice you can think of ("Reward the unworthy, punish the innocent") you can find there. Man, I was such a sucker ...