I’ve finally quit after getting really bored. Over the past 2 years and since they started with the One ISG transformation, my workload dropped by 70% while I received 2 promotions for doing much less work. My colleagues and I were sitting idle most of the time, and still receiving Inspire Awards!!! It's not like I did not want to work, but the One ISG structure with so many redundant management layers have led to that. They sold leadership on the concept of 1 ISG and created deep management layers and dysfunctional uneven structures. I saw my diverse and almost flat management structure change to a new management who all look and sound the same with managers of managers who do nothing but take their stress out on their teams. There’s no room for innovation or true customer focus, rather it’s become a network of loyalists and YES people.
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From a pre-sales pov, our teams don’t have the full picture but what I hear from my team of SEs is that the Product Management team is dysfunctional top to bottom. Hierarchy was put in place just to deflect accountability, no real decisions, no customer focus, they are not listening to our feedback, and they are losing talent left and right. In a year or two the buffer leadership layer will be thrown under the bus, followed by a reorg, and the cycle starts again.
Having inside knowledge of the Pacific North West there are managers/directors who are so toxic it is not a place you want to work, secondly, they promote Ageism against most people over 50. One Manager comes to mind some very good people have been released across Noth America sadly - Karma will catchup with them
Folks beware of Nathan Scheffler and Andrew Linker those two will throw you under the bus
" worked in EMC in old times and it was a great company back then. In 2000" EMC has always been run my a-holes. I remember once a salesman came into my office with a ridiculous quote for some storage and telling me how great the product was over HDS. I told him to get the F out out my office and never come back.
Then a week later EMC was rebanding that HDS storage like it was the best storage in the world. All of EMC is just bull sh*t and now Dell is too
Most folks around me seem to do 3 hours of actual work per week, tops. (and they admit it)
But I don't blame them; I blame their clueless managers for knowing so little about what their teams do that they don't know where to begin coming up with new innovative projects for their teams to work on. The past few years have seen talented management leave and be replaced with clique hires and it's finally coming around to bite the managers who caused this as the few remaining people doing actual work have left.
> worked in EMC in old times and it was a great company back then. In 2000 we had entire Boston Museum of Fine Arts to ourselves with best chefs wining and dining us.
Good old times with Moshe runnning Symmetrix group.
This is not exactly an example of well run company. Playing favorites, selecting people on important positions based on demonstrated loyalty to particular cliques, discriminating based on ethnicity were the reason for EMC demise. EMC failed exactly 15 years after being on its apogee - this is not very short lifespan for high tech company of its size which can be explained with very biased and incompetent management. Dells were the fools who chose to associate with this bunch.. Sorry Michael..
Completely agree! If you are white, male, Christian, Round Rock based and a loyalist, you are in! We moved from EMC2 to Jeff2 but I bet you, none of that shows up on Tell Dell jajaja!
I worked in EMC in old times and it was a great company back then. In 2000 we had entire Boston Museum of Fine Arts to ourselves with best chefs wining and dining us.
Good old times with Moshe runnning Symmetrix group.
After Dell's purchuase it went down the tubes.
@1zba+1dZy0lMo - please learn reading - it is 1000 times easier than writing. Tucci got 27M and not B . In fact it was 300M as he cashed all his options.
@2oih+1dZy0lMo - seems you know a lot about cliqes - I belive you forgot that it's exactly what Tucci changed year-1 when Engineering friends had to go - and perhaps you heard something of it , but you haven't been there. So no, BD too the post as one of dev guys and runs it till today - there is more international developers than ever before - and that was way before Dell had even plans for EMC.
@2oih+1dZy0lMo - no , Dell didn't purchase EMC. Dell in fact had 27bln debt and lost money Q/Q - it's MD and Silver Lake that took over EMC , not Dell Inc.
This is site for layoffs and folks that lost job - you bragging about something you have no idea of - go get some work done or find another job
@3ujp+1dZy0lMo Are you one of those Management people :) Let him/her enjoy the new role .. chill and take a pill
Glad to hear you left. If you have nothing to do all day and are being paid for it . . and blaming the company instead of your own lack of innovation . . you arent right for the company.
Everything went down hill after the EMC purchase (although it seems like EMC purchased Dell doesn't it).
EMC had a horrendous management - very biased people from specific ethnic group were running EMC Engineering using old fashioned cliques and fraternity clubs. How do you expect such kind of organization to scale up and be up to challenges of the new technologies. No wonder that both DELL and EMC folded after the unfortunate and ill-thought-out sale of EMC ..
Dell is but a shadow of what it used to be. Everything went down hill after the EMC purchase (although it seems like EMC purchased Dell doesn't it). Dell bit off more than it could chew plain and simple. Joe Tucci was the real winner with his 27 Billion golden parachute (pawning off a defunct megalytic storage company in a sprawling new world of cloud based infrastructure) no wonder Google and Amazon EC2 now reign supreme. Take you talent elsewhere while you still can.
Congratulations! You did the right thing. They drove out the very people can do the job, left with deadwood. Now the company looks like a money laundering barber shop
Good for you! You have finally left one largely irrelevant company.