Bad culture, values, and executives - Senior Software Engineer Dell Technologies Employee Review

1.0
Aug 18, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Having remote work, benefits before covid-19, overall friendly workplace.

Cons

Covid-19 has really shown the true colors of this company, Dell has canceled all benefits due to the pandemic to "preserve cash." This has to be one of the dumbest statements I have ever heard after a company goes through 2 quarters of the year with absolutely insane profits, better than ever before. Is the company going to look into changing things like at least 401K matching back, no, nothing is being looked into, just a heartfelt email thanking its employees for making them a ton of money. It might look like the executives are good giving up their salary, but that doesn't even begin to breathe on the money they are actually making in stock options ect. So they are hoarding this money in fear of the recession. News flash, you hoard money, your 150+ thousand employees are no longer spending as much, and the places they went to don't have as much money so they stop spending, and everyone stops spending, places closes and the economy crashes. So thank you Dell for contributing to the economic recession amid making billions in profit so far this year.

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5.0
Feb 5, 2026
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Pros

Great Place to work and advancement.

Cons

New Organization structure during 2025 ended team building by making one company/Division team instead of smaller specialized teams.

1.0
May 15, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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