You can get valuable work experience, but you have to be young with no commitments and to be prepared to work a lot. - IT Business Systems Analyst Dell Technologies Employee Review

3.0
Jun 13, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Not too much bureaucracy to prevent quick decision-making and add useless workload, even though this is increasing. Good flexibility regarding work hours (you are expected to work a lot including unpaid overtime, but if you need to take time off even during the official working hours there is no problem). On the IT side: you will work on big global projects and gain experience on large-scale IT systems.

Cons

Clearly work life balance is not a priority and the company will get you to work as much as they can if you never say no. In my personal experience this is not too big an issue as I've always had managers who are conscious of this aspect of the corporate culture and try to balance it, but as everything is at a manager-level and non-official other people might give different feedback.

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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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