Dell is all about who you know - Senior Analyst Dell Technologies Employee Review

2.0
6 Aug 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Team members are fun, work from home life balance is good, good benefits when not taken away during covid

Cons

Dell is all about who you know as far as moving up. Education has no merit here. You can be over qualified for a position and they still won't allow you to apply more than one step above because you have to "climb the ladder." People with no degrees will make much, much more money than you. Micromanagement is a big thing in many departments. Some senior level people are on very big power trips. Benefits were taken in in 2020 from employees yet the business made a ton of money and used it to fund the vaccines. Employees are scared to speak the truth on Tell Dell in case of retaliation by mgmt. Tools are always broken and then why wonder why customers aren't happy. Many times job req's are open only because HR says they have to yet the position is already waiting for someone they have in mind. So you waste your time interviewing and applying. You won't find many females in higher positions. Current new highers make more money than some of us who have been here for years yet they aren't raising anyone's salaries.

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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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