Very low standards - Senior Java Developer Dell Technologies Employee Review

1.0
Jan 27, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The only pro that I can think of is the company name and reputation on your CV.

Cons

- Dell is the first company where I've seen junior developers much more skilled than senior principals. You see on a daily basis a junior teaching them how to use basic tools like git or teaching them programming fundamentals like OOP, patterns, etc. - Public shaming and insults cast by the team leaders are on a daily basis. They are especially targeted at women. - You will get a "budget" laptop, which can bearly handle all company-installed spyware/crapware (ex. keylogger, click-zone, app history, idle time, camera, microphone, etc.). - Overtime is the LAW. It's the only way. Technical aspects: - You don't have admin rights on your laptop. That means you can't install anything. Either you use non-existing or non-working in-house made tools, or you program them yourself if you want to be able to get some work done. - Whatever fancy stuff you read in your job description is fake. Take for instance Azure/AWS Cloud. No, you will use an in-house "cloud" which actually never works. - CI/CD in this company means the following thing: you have a manual release after 1 year if you're lucky => of course it does not work => you "park" the project for 2-3 years => you "decommission" the project. - "Modernization. Upgrading a legacy monolithic app to micro-services" means the following: You're supposed to copy and paste the old code from one repository to multiple repositories. So you get a distributed monolith. It is to be noted that even the code from this 5-years old monolith, was copied and pasted from a 20-year-old monolith. There is much more to talk about Dell but, I think you got a realistic picture of this company.

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 16, 2026
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Pros

At this point? None honestly.

Cons

They did a complete 180 since I got hired. Came in as remote during COVID and now that they forced most people back to the office, they made us 3rd class citizens in the company. Can't get a raise, a promotion, any spiffs or even the same contests that the people in the office do. This company does not keep promises and has been constantly doing workforce reductions ever year like clockwork for 4 years now. The COO Jeff Clarke is an absolute clown as well, you have to go into the office dressed as business casual, but this guy goes to One Dell World in undersized lame t-shirts every year. Hypocrisy at all levels of this company. Just looking for a good opportunity and I am out, after talking to my co workers I feel like 70-80% feel the same. The tools also suck and are down half the time as well.

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