Great products, awful campus, toxic office environment

Attention span of top managers is short. They are like little children: all information needs to be pre-chewed, condensed and simplified. Don't expect any analysis from these highly-paid executives.
Spend too much time building PowerPoints and Excel sheets, not on doing actual work.
Engineers don't create or build things: they just forward mails to suppliers and check drawings.
Focus is on margin not product quality. Bare minimum specs are enough
Product development is about passing gates and getting approvals
IT SUPPORT IS ABSOLUTELY AWFUL. Disgrace for company like Dell to have such poor IT. For example: they don't have the windows installation software for repair. They can only re-image the whole harddrive!
Corporate Mailbox is way too small. Spend more time cleaning and archiving mails than working. Dell sells storage but it's very stingy for their own employees.
All mails need to be kept because some other departments will back stab you.
Austin HQ campus is just collection of warehouses. Not something to be proud of.
Endless conference calls in the evenings to align with the US
Lack of diversity: too many Indians
Need to put on a show every time a senior director from Austin comes by
AIA health care insurance is not comprehensive or simple enough. There are layers of different insurances that don't work well together.
Micro management
VPs who scream and make people cry
Directors who scream and make people cry
HR does not listen to normal employees or takes action against senior management or executives

Making people cry is a clear HR violation and the VP or director should be fired for this. Dell has a much too high tolerance for bullies and abusive managers.

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All Dell managers should read this:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-09/nike-s-executive-exodus-shows-bullies-don-t-make-good-bosses

Bullying bosses better brush up their resumes!!!

No it actually goes like this:

Analyst: The score is red.

Manager: why do you show me this.

Analyst: It is not good and..

Manager: cuts off i need this in powerpoint. can you make it orange instead of red, red is not politically correct. I need more of this, send me more maybe once a day in powerpoint. I may need this one day but not today. Our big boss has a new child project let us focus on that now. I do not have time for this.

If your doc stands the Titus' confidential stamp on it. It doesn't matter if that's a piece of toilet paper... You have to provide the right storage...

ditto on top managers being unable to analyse. They need to be told in simple english what to do too.

Analyst: The score is red.

Manager: hurr durr

Analyst: It is not good.

Manager: why is it not good?

Analyst: says here the thing is not working the way it should. we should fix it.

Manager: (zoning out too busy hearing own voice) It's the customers' fault. We need to escalate this to a random manager except myself to fix this.

I laughed at policy of not having any confidential information out on desk. I agree with the policy; I laugh at how it is implemented. I had a grocery list in upper filing cabinet that was not locked (but only had the grocery list). I was written up for that saying I should not have confidential information available for anyone to see. I told my manager and director it was a grocery list (showed them the list of milk, bread and laundry detergent). I then pointed out that everyone in our area has a whiteboard. On the whiteboard is a list of the products they are working with all milestones including launch dates except me. I reminded them any espionage spy could walk down the aisles and put together roadmap of everything Dell is doing. I told them this isn’t 1972 at Watergate where people just look in locked filing cabinets. There response was in the future to make sure I don’t have any paper that is available for prying eyes. I asked about the whiteboards. They told me they are needed for employees to stay on top of their projects. That director is well thought of by VPs and MD. SMH

Onedrive limit too. 1GB. Smaller than any random free cloud file sharing site. The company itself runs with a worser tech than a normal small business.

very nice. please post this to glassdoor, indeed, linkedin, just about any company review board you can find. But not here. No use telling the people who knows already the same stories and experience.

Agreed on all point too much curry don't even tri to give feedback on TellDell it is a tracker and a retaliation tool

True... But you gave feedback in a wrong form. Tell Dell is next month. Too many Indians, what kind of ethnicity you want to see around? In my opinion some VP's could be Russians... Instead of crying, maybe bleeding.

Agree on corporate mailbox limit. I spend atleast 30 minutes every day cleaning and archiving my mails. The IT policies in Dell are crafted by idiots.

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