It's only a great place to work if you live in Texas. - Technologist Dell Technologies Employee Review

1.0
15 Nov 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you are into technology, Dell has its fingers in absolutely everything. Almost every company I have ever worked at has Dell equipment, for better or for worse. You may get a chance to work with some of the biggest names in different segments of technology.

Cons

Politics run the show. All of the executives have been there for many years, and you will have folks who will kiss their bottoms in every department. And those folks will have no problem throwing anyone and everyone under the bus for their own failings, and despite what a lot of policies and yearly ethics tests will lead you to believe, the HR department will do NOTHING about it except protect Dell from a lawsuit from you if try to bring any of it up. Almost every manager (or my manager's manager in many cases) I have had has yelled at and degraded employees in almost every meeting I have been in. If God forbid, you get on the bad side of one of them, they will make your life a living hell, and if you don't quit from it, they will find a way to force you out. The biggest joke to me is the "work-life balance." They keep bringing it up as if it means something to the whole company. It only means something if you live in Texas. Everything is on their schedule, which means 5 am calls. If you are unlucky enough to get to manage people in the US AND in a foreign country, don't expect anything except coach to fly there. I have many 16-hour coach flights under my belt to go to India a couple of times a year to meet with my group there in person. You have to be a VP to get any kind of upgrade. I was told not to expect any kind of promotion at Dell by my boss. Why? Because Dell is so big and there just isn't enough Sr. Director or VP roles available.

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1.0
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Pros

Today? A job that helps pay the bills.

Cons

The culture completely changed circa 2022. Layoffs happen every month in small batches, so they are not covered in the news with big layoffs, but the total over the last couple of years is 10-20K people per year. Current employees that I still talk to live in constant fear of being laid off. The salary gap between employees in the same function is ridiculous and discriminatory. As a leader, when I'd raise it with HR, it was never addressed. Had a situation where I was hiring an underpaid employee from another team. I wanted to give her a 60% pay increase just to match what her peers on my team made, and I had the budget to do so. HR denied my request to do that raise and only gave her a 20% increase. They didn't want to send the "wrong message" that she was underpaid before (which she was) or that other employees could expect that level of pay raise in internal promotions (regardless of whether they should). They have to come into the office 5 times/week, even though Michael Dell once made fun of CEOs that didn't adopt hybrid/remote work. Just last week, I had a former colleague resign because the stress in the current environment was taking a toll on her mental health. If you have any other option, I'd highly recommend you don't take a job at Dell.

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