EMC Reviews

Former Employee – worked at EMC full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great company! Strong Senior leadership.

Cons – Most cons pertain to work-life balance. This is something that each person must pay attention to because the business will not.

Advice to Senior Management – Get back to what made you successful: understanding the value of the employees and what they mean to your customers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at EMC full-time

Pros – Great educational opportunities, strong PMO. Wonderful opportunity to interact with high profile clients.

Cons – Often times the "techies" did not interact real well with sales/customer service

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at EMC full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Fast-paced, hard driving culture with emphasis on innovation and excellence. Strong leadership and talented, loyal employees. Great products and tremendous customer base. Positioned for long term success in highly competitive market.

Cons – Large company, now approaching 55,000 employees, can be difficult to navigate and to advance career. Demands excellence, no room for mediocrity.

Advice to Senior Management – Make it easier to employees to chart their career path.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at EMC full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Fantastic products, tremendous market share, solid company. Innovative marketing programs, high focus on targeted campaigns, great progress last 3 years in simplified messaging and cross-organizational alignment, progressively integrated use of social media both internally & externally, smart & hard working colleagues, very team-oriented

Cons – Optimal to work in or frequently travel to Hopkinton headquarters for relationship building & approvals on major efforts -- outside of HQ, most collaboration done via concalls. Sometimes seems to move a bit slower than other tech companies (especially software firms).

Advice to Senior Management – Promotions and level increases not as frequent as I would have hoped or expected throughout the organization

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at EMC full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Culture, Career development, Opportunity, leadership development

Cons – None to report for this. This company is far better than most.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at EMC full-time for more than a year

Pros – Offers great salary
Allows remote/work at home
Upper management are very technical and appear to mostly have come from engineering.
Recognizes and rewards top talent.

Cons – 401K match is limited
Health rewards reduces your contribution amount for the health insurance but it's a pain. We should just get the discount always.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the great work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at EMC full-time

Pros – EMC is a great place to work, for it is a top company in the IT area. Staying on top is key, so expect a fast paced work environment where individuals are looking to stay ahead of the evolving competition. There is a good benefits package and opportunities to move within the company.

Cons – A few of the downsides of working in such a fast paced environment, is the main concern are the bottom-line numbers. Work/Life balance seems to take a back seat far too often.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at EMC full-time for more than a year

Pros – Company vision, support and challenges.

Cons – I have nothing to complain about.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the great work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at EMC

Pros – - acquisitive company which adds innovation through M+A in cloud, security, storage, big data
- very profit focused, stable company with excellent benefits
- pays competitively
- work life balance is ok depending upon which product group you support

Cons – - big company with slow processes
- lacks diversity especially with women in management
- entrenched culture and boys club

Advice to Senior Management – shake up the management team - new perspectives
add diversity
innovate and make work easier

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at EMC full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Best benefits out there. Ample opportunity to work with with pretty much any enterprise hardware, software in the industry. Training & certification opportunties across the board.

Cons – Lots of bloat in middle management, plenty of office politics to go with it. Favoritism can be extreme. Many lower-middle managers/directors are promoted engineering personnel (good in terms of career growth), but without having or learning people, conflict resolutions skills.

Advice to Senior Management – Look hard at the redundancy within middle management layers the next time we are told that layoffs are necessary, rather than the individual contributors who actually do the heavy lifting.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company