EMC Reviews

Current Employee – been working at EMC

Pros – Large Stable Company, Good Locations

Cons – Large Company, Management Structure is ancient.

Advice to Senior Management – Think agility, think start-up. The only thing cool at EMC for the past few years has been its checkbook and VMware

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at EMC

Pros – Tech Pubs team was awesome and managers were supportive. Development, QA, Support, were all great to work with too.

Cons – No clear direction for IIG. No support from corporate. Employees not valued. Too much off-shoring. Losing too many good people.

Advice to Senior Management – Every year employees provide feedback to EMC, but EMC fails to address the concerns of the employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at EMC

Pros – Industry leader
Resume builder
Fast-paced environment
Excellent CFO

Cons – No one has heard of EMC
Horibble culture

Advice to Senior Management – Fire people who lie instead of promoting them

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at EMC

Pros – - People are easy to work with.
- Close to home
- Apply the Agile process to project management

Cons – - Incompetent management
- Lack of product direction
- Indecisive

Advice to Senior Management – Hire the best people with talent and not people you know or comfortable with.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at EMC

Pros – Smart people and innovative technologies.

Cons – Too much bureaucracy and politics

Advice to Senior Management – Organizational structures suck.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at EMC

Pros – - Company is a leader in computer storage industry with large and fairly entrenched customer base

- Flagship product's engineering group (Symmetrix) has successful track record as innovator and fast follower. Engineering organization has largely kept up with technological changes.

- Partly thanks to new leadership in products (Pat Gelsinger) has streamlined the business units and improved discipline.

- New leadership in marketing (Jeremy Burton) has increased the marketing organization's focus, though they still have a long way to go.

- Strong Sales competency, and they've begun to realize the importance of indirect channels.

Cons – - Pay is typically below average across the board

- Wall Street weighs heavily on the executives, who are trigger-happy with cost-cutting when it comes to fulfilling profit expectations.

- Paradoxically job security is in the bag for some old-timers (and there are lots of old-timers here) whose greatest assets are their connections. Under-performing executives get to stick around and shuffled to different groups. Accountability is scant in some places, e.g Mktg, IT.

- Lack of work/life balance. No paternity leave offered. Long hours with expectations of working in the office vs. remotely (company offers a remote work program that managers simply discourage employees to sign up for).

- Pretty dismal career advancement opportunities, and there is lack of progressive talent management policies. Source lower-level employees mostly locally vs. from the best around the country (see pay as one of the issues) (does not apply to Field resources of course).

- Culture: command-and-control and CYA.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at EMC

Pros – Good benefits, reasonable time off, Adequate compensation, Opportunities for training and growth, great team and peers, lots of employee perks

Cons – Long change control, customer experience lost in translation, lots of political red tape, difficult to be recognized as an individual

Advice to Senior Management – offer to provide transparent leadership, welcome disagreements as a learning experience, open to suggestions and change as well as constructive feedback

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at EMC

Pros – Good benefits
Work/Life Balance
Training at Headquarters

Cons – Low salaries compared to market

Advice to Senior Management – Start rewarding your talent otherwise you will continue to see brain drain with most moving towards VMWare. It will take both companies down.

Former Employee – worked at EMC

Pros – market leader
excellent benefits
some parts of the company are working on cool new technology

Cons – Environment overwhelmingly political. Competence no longer matters. Capable people pushed out of the way to make room for people who are well connected or who can talk a good game.

Petty. Little/no raises while new layers of VPs continue to be hired. Too much time spent focusing on nonsense - e.g. can't print in color without jumping through hoops.

Poor quality of managers at all levels. Many with no experience actually delivering a product. Senior leadership does not have ability to fix the problems they are currently facing

Advice to Senior Management – at this point, the leadership competence mess is so pervasive, entire layers of management need to go in order to turn things around

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at EMC

Pros – Pay is good.
Time off is good.

Cons – EMC does not care about it employees. For example, we were required to take five percent pay cut in 2009. The reason given was to "save jobs." If EMC was so interested in saving jobs, why the buying spree of Data Domain and Kazeon? There is no training other than a few brown bags, and soft skill training is about the only thing we get. Also, procedures are so complex that you can't do your job, and management by fear and micromanagement seem to be the method used. Also, they use you up until you are burned up. EMC talks about its culture, but it is a seriously dysfunctional family that denies anything is wrong.

I do not recommend it to anyone.

Advice to Senior Management – I have none as they are not listening nor care about what we have to say. My advice to employees is to keep moving on.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend