Lies, damned lies and corporate policies - Anonymous employee Dell Technologies Employee Review

1.0
13 Apr 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Medical assurance benefits, flexible work hours.

Cons

Favoritism Is widespread. As long as you look good you can do a bad job and still get promoted. Do not even dream to move up the ladder unless you kiss or hooking up withe someone. Lots of employees have inflated, "managerial" job titles (e.g. Manager, Sr. Manager, Director) even though they don't have direct reports. Chaotic work environment. Too much internal politics, too little real work. Culture of backstabbing is common. Constant changes to internal processes ensures the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. Crucial executives are not fit for their jobs making underlings lives miserable. This job will beat you down and make you question your abilities.

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5.0
5 Feb 2026
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Pros

Great Place to work and advancement.

Cons

New Organization structure during 2025 ended team building by making one company/Division team instead of smaller specialized teams.

1.0
15 May 2026
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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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