Politics overran this place - Recensione dipendente - Software Engineer presso Dell Technologies

1,0
22 set 2014
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

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Nothing really to say, some of the co-workers are pretty cool that is about it.

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Worked in Austin office for about a year. Dell is inarguably one of the most notorous company to work for. Client laptop and PC division were crumbling at that time and moral was low. Argument and fight between co-workers are common as well as gossip. Even outsiders in Austin area know Dell is a "rough place" to work. In large corporations, certain amount of politics do exists to some degree and Dell is no exception but politics has run its course even at the lowest engineering level therefore you constantly work to solve interpersonal issues and rarely work on technical stuff. Firing is common, when people are terminated, the company directory displays them as "terminated" dragging the terminated employee through mud.

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5,0
8 giu 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

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I like it here a lot

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Pay could be a little higher

1,0
15 mag 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

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Today? A job that helps pay the bills.

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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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