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ISG Engineering leadership is an abject failure

ISG Engineering leadership, the SVPs and above are abject failures. They have absolutely no clue what’s going on are talentless and got to where they are either because the talented people left or they got a package. Going to meetings with them and listening to the philosophize about S@S is ridiculous or hearing them bicker about the d-mbest thing is just embarrassing. You are embarrassing yourselves and your too stupid to know it.

They’re in capable of changing and being any better than who and what they are today. You try to raise the bar, get them to improve and they absolutely cannot. The engineers can but their leadership just can’t get their mind out of their myopic way of working. They think they’re top notch engineering leaders but when you try to challenge them they just fall apart and complain.

They’re incapable of creating anything innovative, and getting them to actually invest in anything is a chore. They’re 100% manufacturing and operations leaders and that’s about it.

The culture these leaders have built in the short time they’ve been in place is horrible. They’ve put in place a micromanagement structure masked by “S@S” which is just a control mechanism because they have no talent. When you have talent you need much less process. By putting impediment processes in place they’re putting a culture of blame in place.

They’re too arrogant and ignorant to even know they’ve taken the organization backwards at least 5 years. At the end of the day, you didn’t earn your role. People left and had nobody else. You play politics instead of having talent, people with talent intimidate you so you sideline them. You polish your rock, thinking you’re a varsity team, while in reality you’re still in a freshman league.


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Post ID: @OP+1k9hrbs6h

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@et What a joke. SC storage had metro, live volumes and actually worked unlike the trash the EMC goofs brought with K8S experiment PowerStore. Powerstore literally ki-led our midmarket storage for 3+ years and continues to destroy at a 5:1 ratio.

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Post ID: @21e+1k9hrbs6h

All, the last three years at Dell were some of the most productive in my career... customer meetings, papers, patents, presenting at Dell World... firing on all cylinders. I realized it was time to go when it became obvious to me that nobody and I mean absolutely nobody in my sr. Management chain gave a $hite about anything I was doing or any of the accomplishments of my team.

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Post ID: @ne+1k9hrbs6h

@mk Looking back, I should have worked from home and let them send me the boxes to return the Dell property.
At least it was on my terms and not a layoff.

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Post ID: @mm+1k9hrbs6h

@kw why didn't you WFH on your last day? Or just take some PBA and let them come to you for the laptop.

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Post ID: @mk+1k9hrbs6h

@kw

I'm not sure if you left on your own or had been let go. If it was on your own terms, be thankful you left on your own terms. Even if you had come to terms with an eventual layoff in this day and age, I see people who have been rattled when they get the layoff notice. It's a tough pill to swallow when you experience it. Personal and economic circumstances hit you right in the face.

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Post ID: @m0+1k9hrbs6h

If ISG would go back to viewing the support engineers as people and not just a line on a statistics readout then maybe we’d all feel better.

Last Friday was my last day. Time to retire. From the day I told my manager that I was leaving to the day I left I hadn’t heard from anyone above my manager.
I received HR communications about turning in my equipment, my phone, and corporate credit card.

Even my manager was out on my last day… working from home. At 3:00pm I sent my boss an email telling her where to find my laptop and then I placed my badge, phone, and Amex into an envelope and left it in a drawer in her office. I walked down that long corridor at 228 not encountering a single person. Apparently they had all worked at home. I double checked to make sure I had the few personal items I would bring to work and then let the door close behind me like I was slamming the lid on a coffin.

I felt a little bitter because I had been rated as a top performer but no one from a senior management even acknowledged by departure.

The following Monday I woke at my usual time, went to work out, and then took my wife to breakfast. I never felt so free.

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Post ID: @kw+1k9hrbs6h

looks like posts related to India were deleted from this thread. Big brother at work.

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Post ID: @jv+1k9hrbs6h

@OP First of all, thanks a lot for sending one of them to lead AI for the whole company.

Second, this place is micromanagement and hierarchy from the top down. What can leaders do to invest when every pot of money is scrutinized and there is a one size fits em all strategy where no one can hire, or do backfills, and the top is only interested in buying “AI”, and won’t approve or endorse any new dev projects in their own company?

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Post ID: @h0+1k9hrbs6h

@gv cyber resiliency is likely beind used to refer to the Data Protection Cyber Recovery Solutions, not our SRO org. Hence the mention of data protection division and India. Although comically, Prod Mgmt is who mostly sets the direction for Data Protection and is based in U.S.

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Post ID: @gw+1k9hrbs6h

@ea Well if you are under the SRO org, leadership is literally in the US and Limerick... I can't speak for directors or managers but, JS and KC are US based and I see JS when in office. RP is based in Limerick. JS and KC are the heads of SRO... RP and KC are the heads of Cyber... Neither of which are India based

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Post ID: @gv+1k9hrbs6h

@ew you can guess why JB left too - leadership messaging now is the exact opposite of the way him and other good leaders used to run their orgs. Probably saw the writing on the wall.

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Post ID: @gf+1k9hrbs6h

@OP It's not just ISG engineering leadership. Everything you said applies to dell leadershit in general.

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Post ID: @ey+1k9hrbs6h

@et people who say that don't have a leg to stand on. At this point the majority of ISG is Dell leadership led. Most of it went to cr@p once Jeff B left. Look at the trajectory. Once Arthur L took over, he's just destroyed the business.

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Post ID: @ew+1k9hrbs6h

Pointing out what needs to be done is no longer the company's direction. It is now, what do I need to say afloat and not get too far behind. They measure this by stock price. Don't waste your time showing what needs to be done. We all know what needs to be done.

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Post ID: @ev+1k9hrbs6h

Hilarious seeing l-Dell people claim that it's l-EMC'ers who somehow ruined ISG. Compellent and Equallogic arrays su-ked, EMC wiped the floor with you in market share, and your engineers tried to push SC features into PowerStore which were constantly delayed, cumbersome, and riddled with bugs. It only took three years post GA and for l-EMC PdM's to take it over for it to be a semi-competent array. Get over yourselves.

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Post ID: @et+1k9hrbs6h

What a rant, someone is butt hurt. It's just a job, if you don't like it move on!

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Post ID: @er+1k9hrbs6h

@cp d-mb comment. If you think ISG has been successful then your heads been in the sand.

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Post ID: @em+1k9hrbs6h

Agreed, why we keep the L-EMC people around so long is mind boggling

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Post ID: @cs+1k9hrbs6h

@bn idk about that so much... The majority of cyber is based in the US and Ireland.

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Post ID: @cq+1k9hrbs6h

Dell should promote the OP to SVP aka varsity team asap. Turn this around quick with the happiest employees ever and just basically printing money...Nice work.

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Post ID: @cp+1k9hrbs6h

It is a swamp. Split and exit. Culture is far too gone.

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Post ID: @b5+1k9hrbs6h

Scrum At Scale at Dell is worst implementation of scrum. They track sh---y metrics, so everything looks green in reality it is a new framework for maximum red tape and minimum productivity. 85% meeting wasted on scrum terms and little time on solving problems.

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