Dell Reviews

Pros

Great flexible worksapce and family environment
A tremendous focus on personal growth and success

Cons

limted voice interms of sales projections, top down communocations are very limited as well
company's onboard process was not very complete

Advice to Senior Management

Keep driving forward

Pros

Proffessional Job with opertunities ahead

Cons

Achivements are more but expecting value for dedication

Pros

Good work-life balance
Flexible hours
Women friendly
Open work culture

Cons

Poor HR systems
Manager-employee relationships often strained

Advice to Senior Management

No advice

Pros

Great work/life balance. Great networking opportunities. Large global organization. Clear leadership direction from ELT. Current strategy may lead to decent growth long-term (IBM like). Good people.

Cons

Reorganizations occur too often - every 6 to 18 months and has been going on for many years. Very fast moving and politically difficult environment at times. Hard to move from basic hardware to software, solutions and services businesses.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue clear strategic directions, however minimize the amount of reorganizations that need to occur to implement. Spend more time with acquisitions being integrated into the greater Dell ecosystem. Continue to reward strong performers with clearly definable and achievable results. Most importantly - innovate through software going forward and add as a strategy going forward (missing today).

Pros

A fast paced environment and working with some interesting technology and fairly smart people. The pay is okay, although they tout it as above average - in reality they keep taking things away and reducing them (remember employee stock purchase?).

Cons

Since joining Dell a few years ago I have become accustomed to terms like 'throat to choke' (which apparently is what the DM role is) and 'feeding frenzy' which is applied to a status meeting when the execs smell some blood, they do not try to help, instead they try to make the wound worse and expose your issue to the broader team. Sometimes it is deserved, which helps you strengthen your message, but also causes presenters to not discuss some of the issues. That generally works, since your team is smart and can overcome the problem, but sometimes it would help to have upper management support and not attacks. Maybe other environments are like this, but certainly not what I have experienced. This goes back to the cut-throat nature of employee reviews and how people make strategic moves to boost their career at the expense of others.
The team is also wondering when the ball will drop and everything goes to China/India. I think the languishing stock price matches the company's prospects.

Advice to Senior Management

Help, not hinder, product development. You talk a game of teamwork, but a lot of the time seems to be positioning and trying to prove you still have engineering skills.

Pros

great diversity and great place to be

Cons

no innovation but a good company

Advice to Senior Management

Innovate or you will be come Chinese company

Pros

I did learn a lot about the company and way to deal with diff. customer's.

Cons

Growth committed and not provided.

Pros

Work life balance, time flexibility

Cons

No sharing culture, no perks, no career

Pros

If you can survive at Dell, you can survive anywhere!

Cons

Survival is a quarter by quarter exercise. Make sure you make each quarter count. Otherwise, the Dell values will manage you out.

Pros

Company values work like balance. Well demostrated by bosses. Allow work hour flexibility as long as deliverables are fulfilled.

Cons

Need to know how to work in ambiguity.