Something that was much better - Software Engineer II Dell Technologies Employee Review

3.0
Aug 4, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work-life balance, pay, and benefits. Historically, Dell has been a strong place to work overall, including a more relaxed approach to the corporate environment and good PTO including sick-time.

Cons

In recent time, policy changes force employees to choose between career advancement and going into office. Employees who were encouraged to work from home and have moved away have been cut off from promotion unless they move back and return to hybrid or in-office work. In addition, recent organizational changes have caused a lot of headaches and ballooning workloads for IT. A shift from specialized teams to larger teams in a jack-of-all-trades format has a lot more issues than upper management seems to think and the employees are stuck with the consequences. It was a great place to work around COVID, but recently too many organizational choices have been made that hinder the "people-first" vibe Dell has always prided itself on. People have been moved away from managers they've spent time developing professional relationships with in arbitrary directions, and non-IT individuals are being put in IT roles and can barely keep up. It's a bit of a mess that leaves the impression that employees are numbers, not people, and there's a greater concern for profits and how to deal with laying off too many people at once.

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5.0
Jul 6, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Huge company with opportunities to grow and work with other teams

Cons

The multiple time zones and countries meant a lot of night or early morning calls. Also layoffs were and are pretty regular.

2.0
Jul 10, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Looks good on a resume. Benefits.

Cons

Within two years of working for Dell Small Business, they've cut our commission rate at least five times, cut our base salary by over $10,000, had all sellers RTO, and blocked any moves within the company outside of SMB, all while increasing KPIs. Meaning more work and less incentive. The managers have almost no pull and are used as messengers to deliver bad news every couple of months. I would never, in good faith, recommend that any of my friends or family work in this department.

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