EMC Reviews in Boston, MA Area

Pros

many opportunities to grow, big parking lot

Cons

lack of communication between manager and employee

Advice to Senior Management

give feedback to employee

Pros

Excellent benefits, great learning environment, fast paced

Cons

Organizational re-organizations shift priorities slow productivity levels

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to process improvement ideas from employees

Pros

Great place to work , Exposure to latest technologies and trends.

Cons

Slow grownth and random change of direction by management

Advice to Senior Management

Communication from management

Pros

Good people, good company, very strategic in acquisitions, poor integration of those companies though...on a good growth path

Cons

Sales rules, no collaboration among different BU's, poor recognition of good performance, very little money to work with.

Pros

great place - good areas within the company and good people - great opportunities for hard work and knowledge gain in world class areas.

Cons

Be aware of typical incompentent managers or directors - horrible backstabbing managers/directors who don't know how they are in management positions they are only looking to cover for themselves - not their direct reports - cover and document and protect.yourself.

Advice to Senior Management

open your mind and take a lot of team building classes - stop misleading upper management as to the status of projects and different efforts going on - you can't fix what you don't acknowledge.

Pros

They employ some smart and talented engineering people. The benefits for employees are actually quite good and leave employees with many options.

Cons

A 'fire/aim'ready' culture that takes its direction from sales. The 'low badge numbers' have a way of killing anything new or innovative because it threatens them. Human resources leadership are mostly worthless and back management not employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop acquiring companies and then telling those new employees how to do what they were already doing because you are insecure and lack confidence because EMC is the only place you've ever worked. Stop giving yourselves tons of stock and stock options because it's not working - the stock has gone no higher than the 20's for over 7 years.

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

Pros

Smart people and innovative technologies.

Cons

Too much bureaucracy and politics

Advice to Senior Management

Organizational structures suck.

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.

Pros

Good payment and complete benefit package. It offers many training plan, and employees have same opportunities to engaged in projects.

Cons

Promotion opportunity is not quite fair for every one. And some times the treatment and the effort do not match.

Advice to Senior Management

It will be better to assign work fairly and reasonably to each employee. And it could be more satisfied, if coordination between teams is more appropriate.