Terrible Management - Staff Principal Engineer Dell Technologies Employee Review

1.0
Apr 3, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Good company IF you have a good manager.

Cons

First-time, awful, vengeful, petty individual promoted to manager in charge of a team of seasoned professionals. He tried to micro manage the team and rule by fear. He used favoritism to let one or two individuals skate by while holding unfair, and different standards to the other team members. We knew this because the entire team would meet to talk about the manager's behaviors. Worse, our manager's, manager did nothing to correct the issue from multiple complaints from the team. Bad management is systemic. Additionally, my complaint to HR was ignored. The team was disbanded save for the lousy manager who is still at Dell today. HR encouraged but blocked my attempts to move to another role ever though HR claimed they would help.

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Cons

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Pros

The benefits are good overall. PTO is generous and the culture is pretty good depending on your department. Dell has a lot of vendors it partners with that offer a lot of incentives. They put on many events which can break up the monotony after returning to office 5 days a week.

Cons

Commission payouts have significantly decreased since I started. They seem to change the commission structure every quarter which is frustrating. Quotas are inflated due to price increases across the industry. They continue to implement new KPIs which must be met in order to get promoted. So you're essentially having to constantly do more work for less pay.

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