EMC Reviews in Sydney, Australia Area

Pros

Open and friendly culture and people. Work hard and celebrate culture. People are genuinely interested in promoting EMC and are proud to work at EMC. Management have an open door policy where they are always approachable. There is a strong focus on innovation, creativity and improvements. Benefits are an attractive add on.

Cons

The bar for high performance is set very high and this can be a very motivating factor because success and high performance are rewarded and recognised, but it a fast pace environment that not everyone would succeed in.

Advice to Senior Management

I think that senior management are doing a great job.

Pros

As a big multinational you have slightly more job security than if you worked for a smaller, more dynamic but higher risk company.

Cons

They have moved their development work to India. All "centers of excellence" are areas that pay their workers less money. The company is basically so huge that nobody really knows exactly what it going on. Statistics are used by upper management, but everyone else know what they are looking for so they make up the figures - they are normally 2 steps ahead of the management. From a customer's viewpoint, their Powerlink system, which they tout as excellent, is pathetic and most of the client base don't want to use it. It's hard to get consultancy work going, hardware support doesn't seem excellent, they have no idea how to do software development. Don't talk to me about CAS... addressing storage via a hash of the content seems to me to be HIGHLY risky!

On top of this, they not only outsourced existing work to India, they reduced everyone's salary by 5%, then immediately got into a bidding war with NetApp to puchase Data Domain.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't lie to your employees. Don't tell us that offshoring your support or development is a good idea. Your IT department is hopeless. Powerlink is terrible. Morale is low - you need to improve it somehow. How about paying people what they are worth?

Pros

My existing team. Not much else good to say.

Cons

Screw you over on pay and hours. Make you do a massive employment appraisal, then do nothing. Make you do hundreds of useless courses. Have the worlds most braindead call tracking system, I have literally never seen anything like it. Everyone is told to do things one way and then immediately find a way to get around the bone-dead decisions made by management. They don't know how to keep key staff. Employee satisfaction very low. IT helpdesk is not a helpdesk. For example, they still require the use of Internet Explorer 6 - how can this be a technology driven company?!?

Advice to Senior Management

Seriously, you bought so many companies you have no idea what to do with them all. Your internal systems suck very badly, how you know what is actually going on in your company I really don't know. Lean Six Sigma sounds great fellas, but I don't see a very lean or efficient company.

Pros

Great place for developing your skills as they have numerous technical learning options. They have a lot seminars regarding new products and their online self training center is great as well.

Cons

Big company so you're just a number. For consultants i don't agree with some of their travel policies - e.g. There were times when people were required to fly back every weekend from a project site instead of having the option to just stay on on site - even though the flight costs were higher than the hotel costs!

Advice to Senior Management

none.