Pros
The best things about Dell are the hard working and smart people who make the company go. Dell is, and has always been a fast paced and challenging place to work. My area is focused on technology. Dell is a great place to be if you are interested in technology. Many parts of the company run on cutting edge products. If you show initiative, you can get involved in a wide range of things at Dell, grow your experience, and learn something new every day. I have done some very big and interesting things in my time at Dell, and I will always appreciate these opportunities.
Cons
Dell has grown a lot in the 10 years I have been here. A lot of the growth has been chaotic. It resulted in inefficiency at times, and the company made mistakes and took the wrong road on occasion. Dell is like a person growing from baby to child to teenager, and is now trying to become an adult. We go through periods of trying many new ideas at the same time. Some of the ideas do not work, so we have to change direction. Sometimes we change direction too frequently. This causes pain to individual employees and to the company as a whole. Dell is excellent at execution. Because of this, we set a course based on an idea, and find that we are a long way down the road of execution before we determine the idea is not working. So then we suddenly we pull the rug out from under the idea. This hurt us, and we continue to operate this way to this day.