EMC Reviews

Current Employee – been working at EMC

Pros – I think EMC seriously cares about its employees. Nice people that are very technically capable, very good benefits.

Cons – a sense of urgency is in general lacking

Advice to Senior Management – Need a more comprehensive quality strategy.

Current Employee – been working at EMC

Pros – very silent .. proper work balance. flex timing no one notice either u in office or not. good strong technical people

Cons – complex product.. have lot of legacy system.. most of the time fixing the customer problem.. support and consultancy doesn't provide reproducible test case

Advice to Senior Management – Define the strategy.. look for growing product. communicate with team and let them know, what you are upto. Need to have new product initiative

Current Employee – been working at EMC

Pros – Good benefits and some great products

Cons – Lower pay than normal
He who grabs the PO wins vice who does the selling
Weak management willing to lie to get you to come on board

Advice to Senior Management – Get a life

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at EMC

Pros – Compensation package great if you know how to negotiate for what you want
Well run internal systems (HR, payroll, expenses, travel etc.)
Freedom to outperform/overwork and be recognized for it (though recognition bonuses are relatively puny for the amount of work involved in going above and beyond)
Interesting acquisitions regularly open up new opportunities

Cons – Heavy meeting-based culture, tough to find time to do actual work
Many, many horribly ineffective coworkers riding the coattails of the able
Very cheap when it comes to technology resources (crappy workstations, laptops, lab servers); nearly impossible to purchase equipment for a new project
MBOs can be a lot of work (or almost none) depending on manager's philosophy, and constitute a significant percentage of your quoted 'salary'.
Stock options are few and far between until you climb near the very top of your dev track

Advice to Senior Management – Give techies more access to the latest gear, don't be so cheap with resources for engineers.
Increase generosity for top performers (stock options and grants and decent bonuses).

Current Employee – been working at EMC

Pros – Good benefits. Paychecks arrive on time in my account. Travel expenses are processed quickly.

Cons – Too large a company, incredible bureaucracy making it frustrating to get the simplest things done.
Too much hierarchy, old style management. The hardware side has no idea how to run a software company. Company encourages yes-men and does not support innovation. Company is too focused on the lowest dollar cost vendor without accounting for the resource and efficiency benefits that are lost when you go with the low-bidder.

Advice to Senior Management – Decide on a vision and execute. Trust your employees to make good decisions.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at EMC

Pros – best work culture, good peer groups, can grow..

Cons – job security is not very good.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue the way you guys are doing. cheers

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at EMC

Pros – EMC is a very large company with well-known products and services, and brand recognition. My job at EMC provided me experience of managing many very large, complex IT projects across many different business units and functional areas (i.e. across finance, marketing, sales, legal, and engineering at many different business units). I was able to obtain more experience working with storage, network management, and virtualization technologies.

Cons – I was practically working round the clock, between 50 and 80 hours a week and an average of around 70 or 75 hours every week. I was working 6 and usually 7 days a week. I was on back-to-back phone calls managing projects and holding project status meetings. My phone calls were continuous from about 7:30 am until 8:00 pm and then I was working until 11:00 pm or midnight completing reports and meetiing minutes, organizing my teams, following up on open issues, checking status of the projects of my other project managers, and making sure everyone was reporting their hours. My team supported 3000 projects per year and I personally managed an average of 65 projects at a time. The work environment between team managers was very combatative and everyone felt on edge all of the time. The management team did not make team members feel appreciated for their hard work and did not provide recommended methods of improving but only provided very negative feedback. My personal life and physical health suffered while I worked there due to the high amount of work environment stress.

Advice to Senior Management – Spend more time training managers on how to treat their employees fairly and do not reward managers for keeping their jobs by degrading their team members. There should be a rating system which enables employees to speak annonymously and freely to rate their manager. If their manager does not show signs of improvement, they should be reprimanded and penalized until they show improvement. Treating employees in such a negative manner will cause the committed and high performers to leave the company, and can ultimately affect client relationships as employees who are under fire can not perform well or deliver high quality work when they are continually on the defense against verbal and mental attack.

Former Employee – worked at EMC

Pros – There is an opportunity to make very good money at EMC. They have a very good and broad product line and management seems to be very talented with good vision.

Cons – The hours are terrible and the aggravation for the money is not worth it. They claimed to foster a good work/life balance but in reality, the expectations of work produced requires constant effort almost 18 hrs a day. If you want to grind yourself down and do nothing other than work, you can make some good money but putting up with the politics and management idiosyncrasies, doesn't seem worth the pain.

Advice to Senior Management – Less politics and more effort on helping everyone be their best. Also, don't pay lip service to the work/life balance and say it's okay to take off time only to expect response to email, etc.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at EMC

Pros – Overall compensation and benefits are pretty good

Cons – Verbal abuse by management coupled with a lack of appreciation or respect

Advice to Senior Management – Basic management training would go a long ways

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at EMC

Pros – EMC is an industry leader that stays on top by of the industry by aggressive research and development of it's products. It was my experience that compensation was at least as good as or better than EMC's competition.

Cons – EMC is not a particularly employee friendly place to work. The engineers and management have very aggressive workloads that tend to result in unhappy employees. This also results sometimes in cutting corners and less than top quality work.

Advice to Senior Management – EMC has a lot of top quality people working them. But the work environment in some areas is less than conducive in retaining those type of people. Recognize the signs discontent and overwork and address it appropriately, before it is too late.