Since I joined in 2009 I've had one good manager. She ended up being laid off. I have no idea why, but I know the company made a huge mistake. Everybody else was either incompetent, had no management skills, or was threatened by everybody on the team which affected our advancement chances. The quality of managers in the last ten years is honestly ridiculous.
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I've been in Dell (via EMC) for 22 years. In all that time (5 countries, 3 continents), I have had many great managers and only one bad manager who was such a narcissistic individual, the level of stress he deliberately caused me put me in hospital with a near heart attack. For which he put me on a PIP and he got promoted out of the job by the person who hired him (lest the hiree be made to look bad) He no longer works for the company and is busy destroying lives in a vastly different company.
I do not think there is a policy of hiring "a-s kissers" but there is a level of nepotism that keeps your friends close....
have you heard of "Peter Principle"? This is exactly the reason...
My last two managers are still there. Worthless self serving id--ts. No management skills and always quick to ask their staff "what's my opinion?"
I’ve seen this happen in the last 10 years too. Used to have kind and competent managers who cared about doing a good job. They were replaced by arrogant soulless people with Ivy League MBAs who think everything they say is gold and won’t listen to anyones advice. They come in like a disease and slowly hire only people exactly like them until you end up with an entire department full of useless MBAs who have no actual experience in anything but bossing people around.
The best manager I had at Dell in the last several years was the one who just didn’t show up at all and stayed out of everyone’s way.
My manager global ENPS of minus 41, beat that.
I worked @ Dell for 23 years in various roles like tech support, IT, SAR, TSR, AE (started in 1993), we really bleed Dell blue back then. Environment was great and possibilities endless. Most mgt and employees were local to Austin/San Antonio/Bastrop and surrounding areas. I saw Dell go through different growth phases. Loved my years there from 1993-2003 -Dell stock also did fabulously well-. After that time period, everything went downhill when Kevin Rollins and all the out of state "book smarts" MBAs took the helm. I went through 10 different managers. Only one out of the 10 was actually qualified and worth his weight in gold. He really cared about the team and used to say "the quantified measurement of my skills as a manager are reflected on the success, skills learned and promotions from within of my team members to other higher level roles". And many of us did advance to other roles due to talent and hard work ethics. That mentality was so counter-Dell, so they eventually fired him. The other 9 were all deplorable, a$$ kissing, no talent, idea stealing glory seeking rejects who only cared about themselves (using the various management roles as trampolines for higher pay grades and director level positioning -even if they were totally incompetent for those roles-. There's always been this running joke within Dell "the more you f##k up, the higher you'll advance". It's always been about nepotism, high school type cliques, favoritism and a glorious a## kissing competition to the top. That management style has eroded and been a disservice to the great entrepreneurship and enterprising talent Michael Dell envisioned when he still had dreams and the youth to care about his legacy.
nothing worse than the managers that were on the ViPR project.
Here is the joke I tell about my managers at Dell: I had 4. One was completely absentee; worked second shift in one of the acquisitions. The second was completely controlled by their team lead and they were all mouth and no substance. The third was your typical bullcr-p artist: stole ideas and claimed them as their own. Finally, number 4 was competent and allowed their people to shine. But, if someone told me I could not have number 4, I take the no show because at least they were out of the way.
Dell does not value talent. They want a--kissers.
Sounds like your manager was not a good 'cultural fit'.
Being an incompetent as----e is the dell way. Not sure why it took you 10 years to notice.