What happened to common sense? - GCM Dell Technologies Employee Review

2.0
May 9, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The pay is pretty good. There are very smart and driven people at Dell, you rarely run into incompetence.

Cons

You are a commodity, nothing more. If you let them they will work you to death, literally. Metrics are used and abused to a fault in making decisions. Not everything can be measured. I spend at least half my working time reporting on what I do to a various other areas of Dell. This was supposed to be reduced but actually got worse because they came up with more metrics to measure how we waste our time. This is most likely because 80% of my management has no experience in the field they manage and rely on "dashboards" of metrics, most of which are measured in a way to look good, not be an accurate view of the situation.

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5.0
Feb 5, 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
May 15, 2026
Recommend
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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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