Worst edtech corporate job I have ever had - BDM Dell Technologies Employee Review

1.0
Jun 30, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

I did make a few colleagues that had the same passion as I did in the k12 learning space, and they too have since departed Dell from a sales and edtech team stand point.

Cons

The environment is extremely toxic across most teams. It is a truly a good ole boy culture/network. Little to no advancement for women, and women are devalued due to their "leaning in" of sharing their intelligent knowledge and ideas. Women's ideas are taken and education male team members reclaim them as their own. Leadership on the global and national perspective from the k12 educational team is male driven with little to no classroom or k12 leadership experiences. The male dominant team have been out of the classroom role for more than 15+ years, making their leadership styles, views and k12 education voice stale and irrelevant. The women members of the k12 education are the worker bees and are viewed as the mandatory doers of the delegated task lists. If you want to kill your creativity and have your professional character and image devalued quickly as an educator, then you would be the right fit on this disjointed k12 education team. They need to do some major housecleaning/ vetting of the male leaders and directors to make change and to be truly respected in the k12 teaching and learning space.

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- benefits - work life balance - culture - great product

Cons

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1.0
May 15, 2026
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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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