EMC Reviews

Pros

EMC was one of the best place to work. Employees have various options to fruitfully spend their spare time. So one shall expect a good work life balance at EMC. It is very easy to contact any higher management officials regarding any issues.

Cons

The pay scale at EMC is a bit low when compared to its competitors. The benefits given to employees could be improved further to encourage their work at EMC.

Pros

Good place to work
Good friends

Cons

there is no reward mechanism
Unnecesarry persons

Advice to Senior Management

Fire all unnecessary persons

Pros

EMC has good technology, dominant in storage industry. nice people to work with, average work pressure, flexible working time, can arrange for good life work balance.

Cons

too many management level, hard to pass opinion to upper management. In some division, management needs sharper vision to define the product.

Pros

- great work culture
- right set of products
- very focused on employees and good set of benefits

Cons

- hierarchical setup
- managerial trainings and
- techonological advancements

Pros

Depending on who the Manager is , flexi time at work as long as work is completed.
Used to be a good pay master

Cons

Political environment , management plays favorites. It pays to be part of a boss who is a management favorite.

Advice to Senior Management

Start re-looking into Pay benchmark in the market . EMC used to be a good pay master but not anymore . HR Data is outdated . Too heavy top management who needs to be fed constantly urgent data - the donkeys under are people too with a family at home!

Pros

They pay pretty well, benefits are good

Cons

everyday you need to worry about who is trying to kill you. The environment is high stress and overtly aggressive

Advice to Senior Management

end the politics

Pros

good pay, good benefits, great friends!

Cons

advancement is pretty much limited to the connected few!

Advice to Senior Management

hire more professionals less hockey players and drinking pals!

Pros

Good hardworking people. Great benefits. Great level of committment to customers

Cons

Quality of work not important to management, only whether you are making your number. Easy to get lost in the politics of decisions which affect your career--whether it makes sense in your case or not. Too many divisions, too many products, too much meddling from core EMC in sales efforts.

Advice to Senior Management

Let your subsidiaries--- who know their space-- run their businesses. Trust in them to know what is best.

Pros

Very good benefits, nice people and good training and education assistance. Good for young people to get some industry experience.

Cons

Very difficult for career growth!

Advice to Senior Management

Needs new blood in the management and get rid of nonsense, political stuff.

Pros

Great people, good products, innovation at times, great benefits, loved the collaboration between individuals and different business units

Cons

Good ol' boy network within management, sometimes those promoted were just kissing ass and not producers, went from a silicon valley work hard play hard attitude to lets adopt the MA East Coast culture and attitude.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to think outside the box to get EMC back to being a great company. There is a big reason for the amount of employees that have been jumping ship in the last 4 years.