Dell Reviews in Austin, TX Area

Pros

Benefits, Pay, Smart people, online focus on ecommerce

Cons

Lack of creativity, need to conform to succeed, want to script everything and mass produce results

Advice to Senior Management

Let the people actually doing the work assist with decision making process.

Pros

Works you quite hard and they do a good job in managing the different business groups- likely to see growth in their business groups.

Cons

This is the place that works you hard, hard, and some more hard. They are very driven on numbers and revenue metrics- it's a good place to start but come back later on in life.

Advice to Senior Management

It would be good to see management working harder to grow the employees work life balance. THere is some room to grow but it's hard to do.

Pros

Community involvement and opportunities to develop are nice

Cons

In a tough industry, which is getting even tougher with off shore movements.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to focus on service!!

Pros

Work culture, flexibility, work-life balance. You will always find something which brings good change to yourself and company.

Cons

Promotions can be difficult and need to sell yourself to higher ups all the time.

Pros

Flexible time off/ work from home. Ability to work on large enterprise projects that other companies will use. Friendly peers.

Cons

It's a large corporation and it shows. Process is plentiful in everything. For the "engineering", I would spend more time doing paperwork or process related items rather than actually doing engineery type work. Lots of meetings - many unnecessary. Mid level management seemed to care more about shipping a product quickly than actually making a quality product in order to make themselves look better to executive management.

The employees who have been here for a long time know the process and end up hiding in it in order to hide that they really don't do any work. These are the people that complain the most when you try and change the process to make it more efficient or to eliminate unnecessary processes. Age is heavily weighed upon when someone is taking your idea into consideration. Being young, not one of my ideas would be even showed a second thought until one of my older coworkers brought up the exact same idea in a later meeting. Then it was their idea and they got the credit.

Nerds and young idea people - save yourself the time and trouble. It is truly not worth it - despite the high pay.

Advice to Senior Management

Think of the customer or end-user before thinking about your next promotion.

Pros

Decent but not great pay
Good vacation program
Good benefits

Cons

Upper management does not have a clue how to improve the company's stock price
Managers rarely know what each person's skills are
Stock has dropped tremendously in the last 10 years

Advice to Senior Management

Clean house starting at the top. Many of your upper managers should be compensated on how the company does. Too many times you give them below market price stock options so they don't have to make any improvements to make money.

Pros

salary, flexibilty, people, location, opportunity for advancement

Cons

Stress, Hours, confusion, chaos, constant threat of layoffs and reorg's

Pros

Solid corporate culture. Supports work and life balance. Pay and benefits are pretty good. Company promotes from within for lower level roles.

Cons

Pay lags market if promoted from within. Hard to move up when you hit higher level roles as there is a perception that outside talent is better. Leadership tends to have a short term view.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your existing employees better.

Pros

Great team atmosphere, great job opportunities if you prove yourself, good rewards and recognition sysem

Cons

Not a great work life balance

Pros

Good brand name. Salary is better than average

Cons

No career growth. No job training. Manager manage their strategy based on quarterly result. No strategic direction in market place. They have not own any market in the high profit margin area(phones, tablets). Company as a whole is struggling with dwindling product pipeline. Apple has been and will continue to eat Dell's market share for lunch

Advice to Senior Management

Got to spend money to make money. If the only strategy you have is cut cost, you will never be the leader in any product segment