Dell Technologies reviews

3.7

63% would recommend to a friend

(36,447 total reviews)
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Michael S. Dell

69% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Dell Technologies has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 36,447 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Dell Technologies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Oct 18, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Decent 401K match Some decent extra perks like insurance discounts, etc.

Cons

Minimal room for growth given flat org structure, which means first time managers are managing 8 people and don't know how to manage and support teams. Also means promotions hard to come by and need to hire externally because impossible to get experience. Expected to overwork well beyond 40 hours a week and receive no recognition for it. Get called out if you don't. Worse during the pandemic/virtual world. Sales has a bulling/boys club attitude that only people on the inside to do well. If you don't fit the mold then you get blacklisted and your life will be miserable. You don't go along with them and if you question or propose new ways than you are seen as a traitor. Sales leadership needs to change or the culture will continue to get worse. They don't care about you as a person, just what you can bring to the business.

1.0
Aug 25, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Colleagues. That is it. I was able to meet life long friends.

Cons

My boss and her goon were the worst supervisors I have ever had. I worked in restaurants before I graduated and dealt with a bunch of people I didn't like and worked with a bunch of people I did not like. However, this job was relentless at breaking you down. I started on a team of 30 people and was 1 of 6 before I quit. It was due to the systematic beat down that moved focus from one person to the next. I have one of the hardest degrees you can obtain in STEM and I was constantly told that I lacked skills or was not apt enough to do the job. 3 people were committed on my team for mental break downs due to the relentless bullying from our superiors. I've heard not all departments are like this and I know a lot of people that like Dell, but my experience on the one specific team was the worst experience I have ever had working since I started working almost 15 years ago.

1.0
Jul 9, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Great team members and a multicultural environment keep your rhythm at work. Flexible dress code, work partially from home is always lucrative. Some of the teams fill the upper layers by promoting people from within the team.

Cons

I can't say on behalf of everyone, but here is what happened to me after I spent a fair amount of time with Dell: With my CPT visa I started working with Dell in 2015 (contractor), then full time from 2017 to 2020, and relied totally on their immigration and HR professionals. Initially, their immigration gave me an outline of 17 months to complete the Green Card process, which is more than enough for my nationality. They wasted my entire 24 months STEM OPT and couldn't complete 80% of it, offered the only alternative to move to Canada (with a promise to get me back). After another 8.5 months, they laid me off without any reason and silently forgot about my career (a graduate who spent his entire US career with them). Even though I have requested multiple times about the timing and OPT expiry, but they assured me of their policy and many useless alternatives. They waited for the H1B lottery a few times and intentionally delayed the process so much that when they ran out of time, I being a tiny engineer became the victim. I became unemployed with no work permit to find a job in Canada! It gave me a really hard time to find a job without a valid work permit - my premature baby was still fighting in the ICU. I never care about my job with Dell because I got a dozen of jobs during the period I worked with them, but I didn't move because they were processing my Green Card - they wasted my time because of their internal process delay and bad employment practice. I had enough alternatives to stay and continue my career in the US but was thrown out of the country only because of their internal politics and some bad people in certain positions - this is not the Dell I dreamt about in 2015! Although Dell might relate everything to Covid-19, I see it's just a label to avoid everything - I shouldn't come out of the US and cancel my PhD offer if their 17-month promise was like their release date. I have tried applying again for a role at Dell, but the same immigration (who was involved in all my immigration matters) replied - you don't have any visa to join Dell! I was thrown to the bin only because I wanted to stay with Dell as a recent graduate! I am proud of my excellence in any team and proud to be out of a bad group of people after 5 years. Compare me with the average engineers you have! I saw a few other people had a similar kind of issue. Once they move someone out of the US, he/she becomes the lowest priority in their promised processing!

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