Dell puts out an article stating how great they did the last year, and quarter - record breaking even! - and then turns around and gives a 126% IBP bonus modifier, and under 2% raises LOLOLOL???!!!
WTF is this bs?
In the 6 years I've been there I've never gotten below a 6% raise and wasn't expecting much this year simply because of the giant middle management reorg last year... I was not expecting a 1.72% at all, though. Englation is like 2.4 and Dell couldn't even give that much lol?
@10k uhhh.... might wanna delete that comment because in 2020 we had 165k employees. At the end of 2021, there was 158k. End of 2022, 133k, etc...
Vmware was sold off in 2021
@zd Normally I'd agree with you but for the 8 years at Dell, I've never gotten below a 7% raise.. My group was put under a new "manager" last year as part of the middle management flattening (Sr. Managers were demoted and we were put under a director, basically.) He has had no interest, nor cared to have anything to do with us for the last year. My group is in the federal dept and I know that the other team he "manages" is on the corporate side.
Maybe he's more involved with the corp team, I have no clue... but as far as we are concerned (my ENTIRE team) he is just someone who approves PTO and otherwise has zero idea what we are actually doing.
Which blows because, our previous manager - who is basically still our manager without the title - is AWESOME and, actually knows wtf we all do on a daily basis. This new guy does 1x1's and that's it.
The national average for a TECH raise was 1.6%, btw... Google is a solid resource my friend! Of course that will vary but no, we are not "way below" the average raise in the USA for tech.
@kc we've never had more than 130k employees and 30k of those were VMware. When sold, we dropped those numbers. They weren't layoffs, just an outcome of the sale.
I've got bad news for you - if your raise was 2% it was definitely below the average even for the US
Im in ISG development, 8% raise and full bonus. Things are good here. I'm supposed to be onsite but work remotely most of the week. Nobody says anything as I get my work done and work in some critical areas. It's tough to commute into work most days when you're on phone calls with India at 7 am and then continuously until 11 am or noon. It's just a matter of what group you work in and what's important to the group. With that said, if HR says I need to be in, I would have to....but they don't and my management could care less.
@ce When I first started in 2019, I think there was around 150k employees. Covid hit and we all went remote. Ironically Covid caused a massive uptick in computer sales so my very first raise at Dell was 9% lol. It went down from there but that was expected however, in 2024 I got a 12% raise so YAY!
What I don't understand is how Dell can toot their ho-n about how GREAT they've been doing and yet, the people who made that happen are rewarded with next to nothing. It's one thing if Dell wasn't doing great and raises were low but cmon, a few weeks before raises and they send an email out saying it was a "record breaking" quarter - again.. and we get tossed a few pennies lol?
Too bad....so sad
@ae what an id--t
Still waiting...
2%, so below inflation rates (which will undoubtedly rise given current oil prices)….your future-self will be poorer. So where is all the money going? The person who holds the majority of shares in the Company authorized a 20% increase in shareholder dividends and an increase in share buybacks. As George Carlin said “it’s a big club and you’re not in it”
@dp 3% is what I get just about every year in tHe US.
Does anybody know what the country average is in US, India, and Israel? I am guessing 3% is US?
I got a 3%, exactly like the last 3 years.
I can just say that Dell su-ks
Same with me. My review was glowing but I had a crummy 3% raise. Why go above and beyond ?
@ce Facts.
They always are, so what!
Be glad you got a raise at all. Dell is not doing nearly as well as you think. Sure, they can pump and hype the market but layoffs are continuous.
To put it into perspective, we will soon be at half the total employees we had just a few short years ago. Dell is dying and they know it. Quality su-ks. Support su-ks. There's no innovation. It takes 6-8 years for Engineering to develop two new features, both of which still don't work. We hype and pump AI to try to stay relevant but we have nothing to do with AI and the market is figuring that out. When NVDA and AMD start mass producing their own hardware, Dell is done.
Dell is already dead.
You will have to look a few levels above you to see who benefits from that record-breaking profitability.
Remember that the next time you think about working hard for Dell.
I dunno, I got 6% & RSUs, but also got an off cycle of 15% in Nov so understand the 6% now
@a6 There is no recession buddy but, I agree with the first two sentences.
They have to tell the investors that they did well. But that doesn't mean they can afford raises for you! Seriously with the recession raises are tough
Raises are like spare tires. Not readily available anymore and missed.