How was your raise? Did you get a full share of the bonus? College kids coming in and making more than tenured workers who have earned their stripes. A useless Tell Dell coming Monday. Franklin is the leading revenue generating plant in the company and they are using you up and spitting you out. Make some real noise and unionize.
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@bk you can find out easily where earning go - to shareholders via $10B stock buyback program
I don't complain as I own DELL shares - that's the hedge I have done exactly for this scenario
MD is going to get 50+% of DELL shares via share purchases and retirement - effectively rising share prices - before split or exit
@eq You mean you apply for a new req and got it? I don't see even for a out of cycle promotion being 45% increase.
@eq It's making us realize you probably soend 20 hours a week with MD's member in your mouth.
From March 2025 to 2026 my salary increased 45%. That included a big raise and out of cycle promotion. It made me realize how little I was paid.
The greatness of 2025 only benefited executives. Whole teams got the lowest percentage raises they’ve gotten in years. Some people didn’t get 100% modifier for their bonuses. But be motivated to keep making them more money, watching their salaries that are public grow while the company shrinks and employees have less resources to do their jobs. The amount of work that’s being asked continues to increase the number of people to do the jobs decreases yet again keep up the good work do more with less because those executives need more and more and more and you should be motivated to give it to them obviously even if it never benefits you personally lol
@bk Sounds like your tream is not essential, doesn't generate revenue, or is underperforming as a whole. Maybe a combination of all 3. Get out of that team/org if you can. Everyone on my team got a standard 3.5% raise, even the folks that barely do anything, which is total horsesh-t. We all got 100% personal modifier on the bonus as well.
With our group operating at a high performance level and generating billions in revenue, I would like to understand the rationale behind a zero percent merit increase.
@bv good for you that you decided to move. I was in a similar situation as you and was always credited for my work, but no promotions as i was not "Senior" enough. Moved out of Dell couple of months after i got an offer from another company. The grass is definitely greener on the other side.
"College kids coming in and making more than tenured workers who have earned their stripes." This is mainly why I left a few years ago. I was making entry level pay, put on a project that was supposed to have 2 more engineers to be hired, each with a $200k hiring budget. I was making $65,000. Handled the entire project by myself for almost 2 years, they never had to hire anyone else. Was working 12 hours a day every day. When it was time for me to move to a new team / project I had to interview and train the new hires, out of school, making double my salary. Then got a measly 2% raise at the end of the year.
Asked my manager why I have senior level responsibilities -- he said something along the lines of "I agree you do the same work as seniors, but you've only been here a few years, so HR won't let you have that role"
The grass is definitely greener outside of Dell. It's stuck in the 80s/90s boomer "I have seniority" mindset.
Some of you need to learn what EBITA is
At the time of raises, inflation in the US was only 2.4%... Let's just say nobody on my team got a raise that was remotely close to that. All of us got a 90% on the individual bonus as well due to "tight budget" despite dell sending numerous emails bragging about how GREAT 2026 was for them along with thanking us for the hard work we put in...
So let's get this straight here. Dell breaks a record for revenue in 2025 - something like 120b, - lays off about 11 or 12k employees, then sends out emails saying how great the company did, and THEN has the audacity to fkn grape us with pathetic raises and 90% bonus's?
Where did all that extra money go because it sure af didn't go to the people who made 2025 a "record breaking" year, that's for dang sure