Changing policies and greed amid high corporate profits - Anonymous employee Dell Technologies Employee Review

2.0
Feb 5, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Most of the people are amazing and wonderful to work with. There tends to be a lot of flexibility and attention to work-life balance.

Cons

Workers who need to be remote for any reason (including that the office near them has been closed) are now targets for layoffs and are ineligible for career advancement (new positions, promotions, etc). This was done suddenly for most, who were clearly labeled as exempt in prior messaging about returning to office. Budgets are highly constrained and messaging about bonus payouts, raises, etc are very gloomy despite corporate profits being exceptional. It seems that those who already have money are being greedy.

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5.0
Feb 5, 2026
Anonymous employee
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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
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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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