You're on your own. But you might like the people. - Senior Marketing Manager Dell Technologies Employee Review

3.0
12 Jul 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Mostly smart people, but it's been deteriorated in recent years. In general, most groups are supportive of family time. Only area to avoid is Consumer unless you are ok leaving your personal life at the door. Might be an interesting place to work in the future but pretty rough place now. Commercial side is significantly better. Senior execs very smart, senior marketing leadership is now first rate.

Cons

Chaotic. Tough, very opaque process for exec promotion. Unclear when/if layoffs are over. Unclear if the company is definitely positioned to win in the future. Sounds really good internally, one or two good quarters of results. Will be interesting to see if a turnaround can be sustained. Dell has a very guardrail to guardrail culture.

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5.0
24 Mar 2026
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Pros

- benefits - work life balance - culture - great product

Cons

Once you get to a senior AE level there are few areas for career advancement.

1.0
15 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Today? A job that helps pay the bills.

Cons

The culture completely changed circa 2022. Layoffs happen every month in small batches, so they are not covered in the news with big layoffs, but the total over the last couple of years is 10-20K people per year. Current employees that I still talk to live in constant fear of being laid off. The salary gap between employees in the same function is ridiculous and discriminatory. As a leader, when I'd raise it with HR, it was never addressed. Had a situation where I was hiring an underpaid employee from another team. I wanted to give her a 60% pay increase just to match what her peers on my team made, and I had the budget to do so. HR denied my request to do that raise and only gave her a 20% increase. They didn't want to send the "wrong message" that she was underpaid before (which she was) or that other employees could expect that level of pay raise in internal promotions (regardless of whether they should). They have to come into the office 5 times/week, even though Michael Dell once made fun of CEOs that didn't adopt hybrid/remote work. Just last week, I had a former colleague resign because the stress in the current environment was taking a toll on her mental health. If you have any other option, I'd highly recommend you don't take a job at Dell.

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