Don't take the Tell Dell survey. It's a waste of time. They manipulate the feedback anyway plus it's not anonymous. Too many stupid people at Dell who still think it's anonymous. It's not.
There's a new survey called FU-K Dell! Take that one instead.
HR doesn’t work for you, they work for the company.
The survey is not designed to help you, it’s designed as a PR move for Dell so they can brag about their score.
Refusing to participate is probably the loudest message you can send.
I've given negative comments and called people out by name for the last 8 years and in that time I have been promoted twice and increased my salary by $90k, it is absolutely anonymous
@cf That is correct. Anyone else saying the opposite have no clue. It's anonymous.
If you do it this year you get a free XS tshirt with presoaked pits that says "All In for RTO!!!" to wear at your next meeting!
@ah the fact that it can be ‘de-anonymized’ proves what everyone is saying
@cf I would like to believe you but management has no credibility. Remember- remote work is the future?
We were told that TD was for us to give our feedback on Dell - our way of influencing outcomes for us the minions - to make things better.
as George Carlin stated "Its a big club... and you aint in it" - Its all a game at Dell, some are good at playing it but most of us minions are not. Dell holds all the cards.
I mean really, nobody and I mean nobody cares. Take it or don’t take it. Make more cr-ppy useless work for yourself by putting in bad scores or negative comments that give you 30 seconds of immediate sat. Most sane people don’t want that …the company and everyone one in it already knows the score. A survey is just checking a box
@cn 100% it's only anonymous until someone wants to know commented something negative
@cf You truly are one of the d-mb ones at Dell. In the survey database, there is a record with your name on it that links to your comments and unique ID for this stupid Tell Dell survey. That, by definition, is NOT anonymous. Good God how many stupid people do we have to have at Dell?
As someone who used to manage the data for this (as part of a team that is not HR) it is 100% anonymous. There is no way for leaders to identify who provided responses.
I've figured to skip it this year. All I'll do is give it more 0's if I fill it out, as all other years before.
@av - I've worked on the leadership side of these surveys at two different companies. In ~10 years of seeing the results, I only ever saw leadership request someone's identity a handful of times and it was when direct threats were made. Just don't fill it out. As long as you don't make threats, it's as anonymous as anything in 2026
@av 100% correct.
Anonymous???🤣🤣🤣
The email states that each and every of us gonna get a "unique" link, meaning that any feedback is fully traceable and there is zero anonymity.
@ad But in prison they pay for your meals
Yes, take the survey. Despite the fact that it’s not really anonymous and they spin the negatives to a positive it is the only way to let them know people are not happy. Even if they won’t admit, they will have to face reality eventually.
Oh, and be honest but not crude. A comment of “This place su-ks.” Isn’t as informative as specific complaints about specific issues.
I’ll go first - raises lag well behind inflation. Many of us are making less in real terms than five years ago.
Age discrimination - Over 35? Then you’re going to struggle for that next interesting project.
Reverse s-x discrimination - that cutie with the tight butt seems to have advanced really fast in two years even if she can’t write a clear memo.
Will it help? Probably not but it’s on record.
@ah It's 100% not anonymous. Not sure how many times people on herebhve to restate this. If it were truly anonymous then there would be no way to trace threatening comments. Those comments can be traced and there is little to no measures stopping non-threatening comments from being traced.
@ad You get yard time?
In the comments section, just paste in the URL for George Orwell's 1984:
https://dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/items/NineteenEightyFour-Novel-GeorgeOrwell/orwell1984.pdf
It would be great if everyone company-wide did this.
No other commentary needed!
It's comments that make it non-anonymous. We all have our writing styles and leaders can figure it out if they want even moreso if you have a global team. Breeze through it (or take your sweet sweet time), mark it all low if you want
It's 100% anonymous. Not sure how many times people have to restate that. Several on here have worked on the "leadership" side of Tell Dell. The only time it's "de-anonymized" is if there's a legitimate threat against employees or the company in your comments. No comments = no worry. I don't see any reason to take it this year after all the data manipulation and late reporting last year
I’m thinking that you should take the survey specifically to waste time. 30 minutes per question for deep thought sounds right.
Dell is a miserable place to work, it’s like prison with extra yard time.