Dell Technologies reviews

Worked in Austin office for about a year. Dell is inarguably one of the most notorous company to work for. Client laptop and PC division were crumbling at that time and moral was low. Argument and fight between co-workers are common as well as gossip. Even outsiders in Austin area know Dell is a "rough place" to work. In large corporations, certain amount of politics do exists to some degree and Dell is no exception but politics has run its course even at the lowest engineering level therefore you constantly work to solve interpersonal issues and rarely work on technical stuff. Firing is common, when people are terminated, the company directory displays them as "terminated" dragging the terminated employee through mud.

BLOATED MANAGEMENT is the worst. There are way too many people in upper management. Nepotism seems to be very high where it seems like friends bring other friends into high management positions when it is clearly obvious they are not qualified and don't do anything on a day-to-day basis. If you ask someone what they do at the company and they say "strategy" - that means they do nothing! All of these people are riding on the backs of a few smart engineers who are doing all the work! There are a few brilliant engineers within engineering/development/support that are literally holding the entire company up. My guess is these engineers are just here to learn and will move on to better things eventually in which case Force10 will really be in trouble. Some advice for Dell is to take control - get rid of bloated management immediately - especially the management who have no technical knowledge; they are just a waste. I know of one director in one of the technical departments that doesn't even know what a router is. Wow!!!!! is all I can say! How would you feel if you were a super smart engineer and had to report to this guy who is probably making twice your salary and doesn't even know what a router is?