I lost count how many times ISG engineering would openly brag about overinflating estimates for work and intentionally leaving features partially finished as an "insurance policy" for future job security. How's that working out for ya'all?
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@cp Exactly! EMC had software engineers with actual software engineering skills. Dell and its engineering leadership were clueless.
How do we know? Because 10 years later, Dell has to rely on old, unsupported, outdated legacy EMC components and products - that still work by the way - to keep customers happy despite the fact those EMC products haven't been touched in over 10 years.
Dell engineering couldn't build a 'Hello, World' application without missing three milestones, requesting two redesigns, and pushing the release to next year.
ISG engineering was doing great until Arthur took over and made it into a circus. See lads, EMC was a technology company. It was actually run by technologists. Once it was Dellized it is now just a sales, marketing and financial company and isn’t run by technologists anymore. In order to run a successful technology company you actually need to have people who have f-cking run one before! Putting computer parts together and calling it a technology company is a farce. Building the AI Factory is a farce. Dell is about PowerPoint slides, stories and empty promises. What you see now is pure market manipulation. It is a short sighted strategy built from a lawyer and a guy that wears a t-shirt everywhere. Dell won’t last the next 5 years because it’s not real. But the reality is that the executives and investors will all cash out and leave with Dell slowly going out of business or getting bought out.
Dell is run by conmen. That’s the short of it.
Agree with OP. ISG engineering never could deliver anything on time, that worked, that was enterprise ready, that was feature complete, that wasn't 10 years behind the competition, that wasn't cobbled together with outdated, unsupported components from EMC or other boneyard acquisitions, that wasn't a quality nightmare, that was innovative, or that allowed us to compete against our competitors.
And here they wonder why now there are all these layoffs. That should tell you all you need to know about Dell engineering - a make believe organization that has no idea how to develop enterprise software.
ISG engineers have never even spoken to the OP. Mom, meatloaf!
the truth is many folks are doing senseless or no work here at dell. I saw many fired were 20+ years on the job, but when you speak to them they were so limited in terms of ways of working like they never finished engineering in first place.
Its not like we should wait with such folks for mass layoffs time, but this should be caught long time ago and improved etc. but Dell prefer to wait, pretend its all good then fire mass to pump stock.. or actually even promote and keep them around because they say YES! from upstairs - they say YES to everything and every time.
Sadly the layoff machine is stupid and very random as well.
didn't actually happen
so fu-k off.
@OP let’s see. You ask for quality, cadence, and content all together and you get shif.
So go fu-k yourself.
@OP And I've never heard anyone say that. Do we cancel each other out?
@a9 Truth hurts but it's still the truth.
You’re an a$$. People have had their lives ruined by a layoff and you come and post this.