Dell faces serious organizational challenges - Senior Project Manager Dell Technologies Employee Review

2.0
Jul 13, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Until a few years ago, you did get a decent amount of cash when you rolled up salary, bonus, and stock grants/options. You do get to work with technology, and the rate of technology adoption is not too slow in certain areas of the firm, so in terms of software engineering roles, you can work with fairly relevant technology and keep abreast of tool/technique developments.

Cons

Disfunctional work environment. They have a set of proposed conduct standards which are flagrantly dismissed and unobserved. The capability of lower and middle management is not as strong as it needs to be. A lack of developed management skills, plus an environment of advancement/recognition facilitated by the failures of others, results in a work environment for individual contributors that is uncertain, chaotic, and unpredictable. For managers, the environment makes success difficult in that managers below the Director level do not have much ownership of responsibility. Even when managers want to do something to make things better, they are not equipped or empowered to make it happen. In addition, management grooming and development activities at Dell are insufficient - you may find in your area that managers often come from 2 backgrounds: personal friends/associates of the area Director, or top performing individual contributors promoted into management as a "career advancement" (even thought they have no desire to manage people).

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5.0
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Pros

Good benefits, PTO, and opportunities for growth

Cons

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1.0
Jun 16, 2026
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Pros

At this point? None honestly.

Cons

They did a complete 180 since I got hired. Came in as remote during COVID and now that they forced most people back to the office, they made us 3rd class citizens in the company. Can't get a raise, a promotion, any spiffs or even the same contests that the people in the office do. This company does not keep promises and has been constantly doing workforce reductions ever year like clockwork for 4 years now. The COO Jeff Clarke is an absolute clown as well, you have to go into the office dressed as business casual, but this guy goes to One Dell World in undersized lame t-shirts every year. Hypocrisy at all levels of this company. Just looking for a good opportunity and I am out, after talking to my co workers I feel like 70-80% feel the same. The tools also suck and are down half the time as well.

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