Dell Technologies reviews

1) Re-organizations have become a fact of life, many for no apparent reason or benefit. I've gone through ten in six years. Each time key talent has left the business, and along with it much tribal knowledge and insight. 2) Management quality is very inconsistent -- some groups have committed and professional managers, others have poorly trained and inadequate management. 3) Oddly, corporate culture inside Dell is a hodgepodge, I've worked in five groups and each one had a different view of work/life balance, innovation, customer focus and business acumen. Some had very high standards, others lacked any insight into excellence. 4) It's become increasingly bureaucratic. Tasks which once took days now take weeks. 5) There's no shortage of good ideas, but a huge gap in follow-through. Everyone at Dell can describe initiatives that last a quarter (or less) and then disappear. Projects come and go with no rhyme or reason. Managers fail to complete tasks they're required to do every year. 6) We're all waiting for another reduction in force.

Right now Dell upper management has no clue what they're doing. They seem to be living in their own castle up in the clouds somewhere, and have no sense of the ground realities. Many times information gets filtered up to them by the lower level execs and it seems that the upper management is not being presented with a clear picture about what actually is going on. Numbers are made up by Directors to present to VPs and so on and so forth. The benefits are being cut every quarter which effectively means a reduction in compensation. Job growth is not happening. People are stuck in their roles because of hiring freezes, and there is just no clear path to career development