Pros
The best reasons to work for Dell are: 1. Experience working with the best and latest technology on the market. Learning is constant and varied on the job and training courses are constantly provided and encouraged. 2. Salary and benefits package is good. 3. Colleagues are professional and highly skilled which makes for a great experience to learn from others' knowledge.
Cons
Downsides are: 1. Just lost several of my colleagues to involuntary redundancy and the way it was handled by management was disgraceful. We had to wait from 1pm until 5pm to know whether we were one of the people being made redundant or not. 2. Atmosphere and morale at an all time low. 3.management are ruthless and seem to have no respect for the employees. 4. Expected to work weekends and a lot of out of hours for no extra pay. 5. 24x7 on-call for I.T. people such as myself once a month by rotation which ruins any chance of work/life balance. 6. Treatment of women in the workface disgraceful regarding lack of promotion or equality, especially if maternity leave is involved. Might as well kiss your career in Dell goodbye if you have the audacity to get pregnant while working for them. 7. Culture of fear propagated by the management by extending layoffs over a one year period. 8.Dell aims to serve the stock market analysts instead of their customers and/or employees. 9. Internal movement to other positions almost impossible. It is easier to leave the company and get placed in another Dell job by an external recruitment company than attempt to move internally. What HR are doing is anyone's guess but they are not involved in trying to retain good people. 10. Endless mindless duplication of reporting, this company seems to be run on Excel spreadsheets. There is repetition of the same reports being produced around various functions of business when surely everyone should be working of a similar set of reports? 11.Globalisation has been very badly managed....people travelling around the globe trying to coordinate global teams and a few months later management complain about Opex. 12. There used to be a 'Winning culture' in Dell, now replaced with 'Fear culture' which is crippling the company of innovation.