Please stop trying to break the business. - Business Analyst Dell Technologies Employee Review

3.0
Jun 30, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits package has always been one of the best around. The health of employees is a high priority and as such we do get many opportunities to improve our well-being at little or no cost, and often there are other incentives as well. Work-life balance is also a high priority, which means I can leave work at work, and live my own life.

Cons

Change is the only constant. In the past six years the departments I have been in have been reorganized no fewer than ten times, with changes in management structure and purpose. With each new shift, a new goal or mission would emerge, but all of the departments seemed to be working in silos. The company has gone global but the various teams are not working together to keep the company a whole unit - rather we are segmented and the lines of communication are often broken. Massive pushes for opex reductions from the top also contribute to the confusion at the bottom, when mid-tier execs decide that headcount reductions are the easiest way to go without considering that: a) at some point you will cut too much talent and break the business, and b) constantly leaving your employees in a state of fear completely inhibits productivity.

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Today? A job that helps pay the bills.

Cons

The culture completely changed circa 2022. Layoffs happen every month in small batches, so they are not covered in the news with big layoffs, but the total over the last couple of years is 10-20K people per year. Current employees that I still talk to live in constant fear of being laid off. The salary gap between employees in the same function is ridiculous and discriminatory. As a leader, when I'd raise it with HR, it was never addressed. Had a situation where I was hiring an underpaid employee from another team. I wanted to give her a 60% pay increase just to match what her peers on my team made, and I had the budget to do so. HR denied my request to do that raise and only gave her a 20% increase. They didn't want to send the "wrong message" that she was underpaid before (which she was) or that other employees could expect that level of pay raise in internal promotions (regardless of whether they should). They have to come into the office 5 times/week, even though Michael Dell once made fun of CEOs that didn't adopt hybrid/remote work. Just last week, I had a former colleague resign because the stress in the current environment was taking a toll on her mental health. If you have any other option, I'd highly recommend you don't take a job at Dell.

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