The Dell CULTure is infecting a great thing - Engineer Dell Technologies Employee Review

3.0
May 7, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very smart people to work with Encourages work-from-home For those who travel, a decently liberal travel policy Decent work/life balance

Cons

Dell CULTure is infecting the EMC culture. Given that EMC itself had a strange culture, it was still a company people loved, both employees and, clearly, enterprise customers. With the Dell merger it is all going in a terribly wrong direction because the Dell CULTure is truly an infection that'll take a gold standard enterprise company and turn it into the "race-to-the-bottom" box slinger, like Dell has always been. Also, it is very clear the debt is taking a toll on the company, so it creates an uneasy atmosphere.

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Cons

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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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