Dell Technologies reviews

3.7

63% would recommend to a friend

(36,434 total reviews)
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Michael S. Dell

69% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Dell Technologies has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 36,434 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Dell Technologies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jan 28, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

-Pretty good salary -Good work life balance until the 5 day RTO mandate -Some good pockets across the organization with good work life balance and culture -Some good leaders, but most teams experience frequent leadership changes without notice

Cons

-5 day RTO suddenly mandated (changed their tune after a previous emphasis on flexibility with under a week of notice, causing parents to scramble). Likely goal is to cause attrition without paying severance. -Employees generally treated with contempt -Poor office perks (no free coffee, bad and expensive cafeteria options) -Frequent reorgs so most people work in roles they never applied for or wanted, with little opportunity for internal movement -Poor job security and morale (sudden layoffs every month, no one is safe and everyone fears layoff at any time) -Generally hostile working environment where toxicity runs rampant. Old-school leaders with outdated mindsets run this company -Terrible tools, technology, and processes to enable employee work and communication. Causes churn, inefficiency, and isolation where teams work ineffectively in silos. -Intense red tape makes it hard to actually innovate or improve things, even when the fixes are simple and obvious.

1.0
Feb 5, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of great managers but are forced to micromanage due to new in office mandates.

Cons

There is no “word”. A company that prides themselves on flexibility and family first, is no more. Now it’s less about what you can contribute and more about where you can contribute from. Used the remote role as motivation to move closer to my older parents and now I’m basically halted in my career and out of luck.

1.0
Nov 15, 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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