Get back to the basics. - Systems Engineer Dell Technologies Employee Review

4.0
Jun 11, 2008
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Pros

The casual work environment was very nice and an unadvertised benefit in my opinion. There seemed to be quite a bit of potential for career advancement and/or movement within the company...if they thought you were a risk to leave and were what the performance process deemed a "high valued" or "exceptional" employee.

Cons

If you are within IT or IT Operations there is zero work life balance, where you will easily work 16+ hours each day (office hours, on-call, weekends, etc.). Constant re-organization was a head ache at times, because you may end up reporting to three different managers in one years time. And of course each manager had their own agenda's on what should be done and how it should be done. And of course Dell has absolutely no problem laying employees off (did not happen to me) if it means one additional dollar saved. And there seems to be no real reason for who they lay off at times. There have been some really good employees laid off simply because they made more than others on their team.

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Cons

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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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