Soul Sucking Culture with Zero Loyalty - Inside Solution Architect Dell Technologies Employee Review

3.0
Aug 7, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay is decent enough, and what's left of the nerd culture is conducive to gaining friends.

Cons

Layoffs are a thing with this company, especially when they over-hire against the fiat economy. They will fire highly paid competent people and replace them with two or three low paid semi-incompetent college grads. The benefits appear good on the surface, but are expensive, overly complicated, and pandering. The corporate ERP, CRM, and other tools are for the most part extremely bad, devouring worker productivity. The corporate culture is highly political; beholden to stakeholders and failed ESG notions. The workload is nearly always an overload due to hiring/firing practices. The NPS mechanism is broken or corrupt, with the surveys asking leading questions that make it very difficult to give constructive feedback or point out inadequacies. Middle management acts as buffer to protect leadership from worker concerns and tribulations, and make excuses for corporate failings.

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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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