Dell Technologies reviews

3.7

63% would recommend to a friend

(36,441 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 36,441 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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3.0
Sep 27, 2018

Software Engineer

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Pros

The salary and benefits are pretty good. There's also an actually decent focus on work/life balance. Aside from the occasional long hours before/during a release to production most people pretty much keep it to 40 hours/week. Most people also have flexibility to work from home at least part of the time.

Cons

To put it nicely, on the whole I would say that Dell (or at least the engineering space) is a giant, inefficient, incredibly frustrating organizational mess. When the company went private several years ago a good chunk of the best engineering talent either quit or were laid off. Since then the direction from management seems to have been to outsource about 2/3 of all team members to India and to never get rid of under-performing employees. So over time as many of the great engineers are promoted up or leave the company out of frustration we've seen a steady degradation of overall quality on software teams. There's also a frustrating amount of red tape to go through for every little thing. Want to deploy a bug fix to a test environment that will unblock several downstream teams for next week's release? Gotta wait until the end of the day when deployments are unlocked for 2 hours or else get a email sign-offs from 5 managers who don't know anything about your project, several of which may be asleep on the other side of the world. Lastly, over the years I've seen management change hands and departments renamed so many times that I literally don't even pay attention anymore if it doesn't directly impact my team. And especially when upper management is changing around, there's a good chance somebody somewhere is getting laid off. Makes people nervous. So to kind of sum up my pros and cons here, if you want a relatively stable job with good pay and benefits, decent work/life balance and flexible hours, and you don't mind dealing with a whole lot of frustrating nonsense tangential to your actual work then Dell might be a good fit. But if you're a real go-getter and want an exciting environment to work in then I'd suggest looking elsewhere.

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Dell Technologies Response
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Thank you for leaving such a helpful review. Improving is our major concern. Appreciate you a lot and we'll do our best to be better with this situation.
1.0
Sep 22, 2018

Not recommended at all

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Pros

-Work life balance. -Decent benefits. (Atleast after the merger)

Cons

-Very laid back environment -Very frequent org changes -No value/encouragement for innovation -No vision -Mangers dont care for their team members future/technical skills. -Mangers just want the work to be done. They dont even see if there is any value add by doing that work or if it can be done more efficiently or effectively. -Few team members try to get their work done for the sake of it. They dont even understand why are they even doing it. -Hiring is very bad. I dont even understand why they hire people with zero technical skills. -Too much politics. -Very low pay compared to the market standard. -The upper management does not even listen to the employee feedback. -No recognition

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Dell Technologies Response
7y
The chances for us to improve have increased thanks to you! Thank you for sharing your experiences with us.
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