Putting aside the general sentiment that Managers and Directors are often criticized—which can be hard to dispute—I'm interested in your opinions on which departments would benefit most from reduction to foster meaningful change.
Additionally, how do you believe these changes would help propel Dell towards a more positive and forward-thinking direction?
Does "no HR" means "No layoffs"?
Well, guess we found out 🤫
The regional strategic partnership team appears unnecessary. They mainly act as messengers and seem unclear about their value to the company or the business. It feels like they’re merely trying to stay relevant by forwarding a few emails about global partnership updates and assume to have a genuine strategic partnership.
They can get rid of all the people that insist they will still work remote and not go back to office 5 days a week. If all of the other people are in building 5 days a week start with the remote people I'm sure they won 't be missed anyway.
Project Managers can go!! They have a useless job that don't make much of a difference.
They could be out a month and no one would know. And how many do they really need???
" I've heard something like 10K globally will be let go to streamline sales and sales ops. AE, TSR, ISR they will all collapse to one person with AI developed tools processing the order process."
I don't know the extent of this but I have definitely heard of this project. Especially on the Sales side of things for over a year. Have the AE use AI tools. These AI Tools would have to be really good.
Last year in H2 a significant number of workforce from CSG and ISG business units were transferred to Marketing. Clearly they are <50% productive and don’t have much to do.. they should be let go.. and few reporting to CMO are hardly productive, eg: Thanka and Sansanwal are clueless and doesn’t add any value. Btw Sansi a product of nepotism from Dew’s period.
Don't worry. The big WFR is coming. It is right in front of us as soon as IT launches the new tools written by AI development teams. When Maverick?? launches all the team member globally who work on orders thru the process will be gone. The new tools will automate all the order processing and allow the orders to flow without as many hands on the order. I've heard something like 10K globally will be let go to streamline sales and sales ops. AE, TSR, ISR they will all collapse to one person with AI developed tools processing the order process. Once that launches there will be a large restructuring that will then ripple thru all of Dell globally. Just stay tuned. No clue how long it will be because no one knows if IT AI dev teams can finish the tool to make it operational. Don't ask how I know.....
Project managers. Nobody misses them when they are out on vacation and we can actually get work done
@dy+1jkeq2bx1 They already have that but not sure if continued after the second round of WFR. It was created under the guise of Culture Code but the people volunteering in it were finding out redundant projects in the company. They report all findings to ISG Services and executive levels of Support group.
Toxic managers that were reported to HR.
Let’s approach this more logically and constructively. Instead of focusing on individual salaries (saw some posts), we should evaluate their contributions to the company. The emphasis should be on how their roles and efforts align with organizational goals and add value to company and others rather than targeting personal compensation. This ensures a fair and objective assessment of their impact on the business.
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Bain should be in this chat if they have not. They are not seeing that sort of depth and problem the working level are seeing.
The regional services CoC teams across different regions seem overly redundant and unnecessary. Their role is largely limited to relaying information, which often gets distorted or fragmented. Often they cant change anything elsewhere. It would be more efficient to streamline communication solely through the global team. When it comes to services product launches, I would prefer to receive information directly from the source to ensure clarity and accuracy.
OCTO. What has it produced in terms of monetizing offerings? Nada. Zip. Zilch.
Gut it entirely.
Former Dell Learning myself. The leadership in place the past 2+ years is a joke! Wondering what will happen to that whole crew that spent their time on developing training we needed for correct pronouns and not being able to say right-handed.
Corporate lawyers are basically the folks who couldn’t run their own firm, or didn’t go to the right school to get hired by one of the big firms.
Massive waste and cost for Dell to run this in-house.
@dz+1jkeq2bx1 I've worked with people in Dell Learning for years and I couldn't agree more. I was floored upon hearing some of the names that were let go this week. Whichever managers/VPs submitted these names are total bell ends who don't have the slightest clue what these people brought to their organization. Their knowledge, value, and relationships will not be easily replaced. The 'leaders' of this org who made these asinine decisions are the ones who should have been shown the door.
They should get rid of Field Customer Service entirely. They have field Directors making over 200k……. for what?
Dell’s internal legal team is costing it a fortune and we lose many cases.
Dell learning. Led by a person who couldn’t find their ar-e with 2hands and a super bright flashlight. Current Staff are glorified ar-e kissers. The VP let go staff with so much knowledge who cared about customers. Cannot be replaced. Customers will suffer and abandon Dell for other companies.
What we need is an external hire DOGE executive, who reports only and directly to Michael Dell, to cut out useless expenditures, useless VPs, directors and middle management, quiet quit employees and eventually balance Dell Technologies' budget.
Coming soon: AI Manager.
This site is turning out to be better than Tell Dell.
The VP Pdm for TSB infrastructure blocks has not delivered any of the revenue promised for Years. Why is he and his team still around ? This proves that the Rot is still spreading
Legal team at Dell can be fully outsourced easily.
All channel people need to go, serious what a waste of money and time! We have channel people for every product line and solution that have never sold to a customer face to face. All they do is entertain partners, which can be done by any AE that can walk upright and fog up a mirror. You want to talk about saving on OpEx, eliminate channel reps who do nothing all day and act as if they actually matter. Channel managers/VPs are about as useless as an inflatable dartboard. Majority of them couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel.
Any and all Dell managers shoukd be let go. From my experience all they are capable of is looking at reports, misinterpreting the (massively flawed) data and then sending it on to the next person. They seriously fail to grasp the even most basic differences between supporting multiple petabyte storage arrays and an entry level laptop. They truly believe every issue can be solved in a single 3 minute phone call.
Look at a management org chart. Anyone with fewer than four direct reports is probably not needed. Those people are not needed and the reports could go to someone else. THere was a while when there were a couple of managers in my building each with only one direct report.
Anyone whose job is collecting data from a level below them and passing it up the chain in a report. Sounds like a job screaming for AI.
It is quite sad where the company is heading. I am sure people are seeing which team should be cut or not cut. redundant or not redundant. Just look around if you are long enough, am sure you are seeing team/members who are the real contributors vs “who/teams are just hanging around”. Just too obvious already.
I do agree. The company need more customer facing field people who are able to bring in business than backend people who think they are “king of products” because they are from CoC (in my opinion they are just emissary). It is the field people who bring in business to feed them and keep them from surviving. The CoC people “leech on” those who bring in the business to keep them around. It is a shame really in my opinion the company doesnt realise that.
The marketing team and CoC team needs to relook at. Too many marketing and CoC people at different regions (EMEA, Latam, Ap, etc) who just passing message from top down. Too unecessary and extravagant. Products launches should always comes from global and how much effort and sessions does it take to do a cascade down every quarter to every team to the different regions?
"Anyone from EMC needs to go. By far the most over-titled, over-paid, least valuable and laziest people we have ever had at Dell."
When I see this kind of sentence, I stop wondering why Dell is sinking...
EMC was A REAL company with innovation and hardworking people.
Jealousy will take you nowhere and all it sounds is that you prefer to stay in your own sh-t by stabbing your little friend.
Let me know when you get laid out, I will celebrate...
Senior leadership. We are too top heavy. VP’s, SVP’s…there are too many. There aren’t enough people below to do the work. The more people up top, the less actual work gets done because the people below are running in circles trying to keep up with their demands. Also, not every VP needs and admin and chief of staff. Those are outdated positions and can be consolidated.
Stop suggesting other groups or departments to get hit. All you are doing is stabbing each other in the back and making it easier for the d-mb management to choose folks to get rid of.
dell infrastructure product team should be replaced fully
It's not as much departments as it is people. Anyone from EMC needs to go. By far the most over-titled, over-paid, least valuable and laziest people we have ever had at Dell. Sleeping turtles have more urgency than they do.
Dell learning. Nothing left except bosses without ethics and new, inexperienced contractors with no idea what technical education means.
"Lots of well dressed people attending meetings then attending other meetings to summarize those meetings."
Yes. The extravagant outfits. GUCCI doesn't make good software decisions.
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