Was a good company - Senior Software Engineer Dell Technologies Employee Review

2.0
7 Nov 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They have good technology, good engineers but not good managers. Reasonably good salary and office is situated at good location. Specially in some business units, low level engineers are good compared to some senior level engineers.

Cons

Managers want work done and quality doesn't matter. They lack technical skills. Shows lot of favor-ism for promotions and salary hikes. Due to this, some senior guys are stick to the company for long time and getting good perks irrespective of their work. Some Principle engineers who are there for long time, doesn't even help new joiners. On top that they do not even know how to code. They are surviving because they are pets to managers. You always find them with managers (for coffee, lunch, etc..) than helping other in the project. At the end, they show case other's work as if they have done everything under guidance of managers. I haven't seen any one gave good technical presentation or given good inputs or written code especially in the BU which I have worked. Some principle engineers always tries to avoid technical discussions that shows how impotent they are. But such people are white-collars there for nothing. Managers doesn't have sporting spirit in reaction for managerial reviews. Rather they target engineers during appraisals, layoffs etc.. Layoffs are there every month and only survival point is you should be a pet to your manager. It was not the case earlier. Some QA mangers are far better than development manager in some groups. This company has worst HR team and doesn't address to employee comments specially of low level engineers. Layoff are very common here. Work is moved under maintenance mode so not much development in some BUs.

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Pros

Good life-work balance. Friendly teammates and management.

Cons

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1.0
16 June 2026
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Pros

At this point? None honestly.

Cons

They did a complete 180 since I got hired. Came in as remote during COVID and now that they forced most people back to the office, they made us 3rd class citizens in the company. Can't get a raise, a promotion, any spiffs or even the same contests that the people in the office do. This company does not keep promises and has been constantly doing workforce reductions ever year like clockwork for 4 years now. The COO Jeff Clarke is an absolute clown as well, you have to go into the office dressed as business casual, but this guy goes to One Dell World in undersized lame t-shirts every year. Hypocrisy at all levels of this company. Just looking for a good opportunity and I am out, after talking to my co workers I feel like 70-80% feel the same. The tools also suck and are down half the time as well.

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