Dell Technologies

While founder is now listed as top 10 richest person in the world, fewer and fewer employees earn stocks to vest in 3 years, 1 or 2 people for every 20-40 people in Product Management. Culture changes greatly by orgs, overall overworking folks are praised. It would be better to have a lower base pay and more stocks. Total Compensation is what matters end of the day. All who staid (laid off or not) usually are looking for better TCO elsewhere.

Frequent layoffs (WFR) of talented engineers Poor business strategy targeting AI Poor development of young engineers

Worst Politics in Hyderabad. people with 20 years service still work there and all oldies with no insights or no foresight, just some ego.

Engineering is completely disorganized right now. There have been so many layoffs and reorgs the past 2 years that barely anyone knows who they're working for or managing. I had 3 different managers the last 1.5 years i was at dell. Its not uncommon now for managers to have 25+ direct reports, many of whom they've never met, often working on a product they've never touched. As an example the first 1 on 1 I had with the last manager was when i was informed i was being laid off.

Bad communication and very weak strategy that is unknown

With RTO mandates changing to be not as flexible

No salary hike in long term

3.5 years of laying off 50k people and no acknowledgment from the top. Layoffs every quarter has been brutal for morale.

a lot of stress and pressure in sales environment

The leads are pretty bad