Dell Technologies reviews

I currently work for a terrible manager who undermines his team, fails to hold problem engineers accountable, and raises the stress level unnecessarily. Some Dell managers are better, but the culture encourages turf-battlers over good managers. It appears that priority 1 is repaying the LBO firm that took Dell private, at the expense of flogging as much has possible out of engineering with no new hires and no back-fill after RIFs. The saying around the office is "Cisco Products on a Wal Mart Budget."

Work life balance is unacceptable! The expectation is you will be committed to an 80+ hour workweek (often in excess of 100Hr/week). Mid level managers are merely mouthpieces for senior management directives - with little ability to impact or improve the working conditions for those that do the work. Training is abysmal - mostly sales or marketing focused dribble that fails to educate. Ethics are horrible - great on paper, but in practice - some of the worst I have seen. If it sells product, management quickly turns a blind eye. Change may be inevitable, but at Dell, it has taken on a whole new definition. Changes in pay, changes in territory, changes in reporting structure, changes in team all work together to create a hurricane of chaos. In my opinion, this level of change is purely to hide the incompetence of sr. management at Dell. It has also fostered an extremely cutthroat culture in which team members become ruthless and will do whatever it takes, no matter how ugly or unethical, to stay at the top of the heap. As an employee at Dell, I found myself feeling like an utterly insignificant cog. My opinions didn't matter, my personal life (or need for one!) didn't matter, and creating a stable work environment didn't matter. Leaving Dell has been the BEST decision of my entire life