You're not special, they don't care about you. - Communications Specialist Dell Technologies Employee Review

3.0
29 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits are decent, paid holidays.

Cons

This company is a shell of what it used to be. Michael Dell has created a culture of fear, uncertainty, and disloyalty. Their motto is "company, then team, then individual" and it certainly shows. If you think that the layoffs won't reach you, you're wrong. They come for everyone, eventually. Middle management has been stripped and now 20+ people are reporting to all managers, even the most senior c-suite, with no room for growth or career progression for individual contributors. Executives are so disassociated from reality and have no idea what employees go through (nor do they care). Benefits are going downhill and no one is allowed to bring up diversity and inclusion. But the worst part is their obsession with becoming "leaner" and operating like an AI-native company. What a laugh - a dinosaur behemoth of a company that is trying to level the playing field with the smartest and most creative minds to exist today; plugging holes and trying to unravel decades of bad processes, outdated tools and bad leadership. They will never truly compete as an AI company, because they can't offer anything unique. My best guess is that Michael strips the company down and sells in the next few years, sailing off into the sunset with his billions of dollars and good friend, Donald Trump. If you are contemplating working there, I hope this finds you. If you're a current employee, get out now. There is life after Dell. No one deserves to be treated that way.

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Cons

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Pros

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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