While we are facing layoffs, Dell is busy hiring in Bangalore (and I'm assuming other overseas locations, this was only the first one I ran into when I searched for it). This is our future, folks. Constant layoffs here and constant hiring abroad. We are apparently too expensive. Sc--w quality when you can save a few bucks, right?
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that's the I in ISG
Last time I bought a Dell product was never
A lot of the PM's I work with are based in India and do a great job.
Has been happening for years. We used to have well-staffed high quality processes but little by little moved everything to cheap contractors and agencies overseas, while the US team gets triple the work with 1/5 the staff.
The work pushed overseas ends up being so low quality that it becomes extra work for the US staff to constantly be putting out fires caused by low quality overseas agency work.
It may also be a culture thing but these overseas employees never let anyone know when something is breaking, so I get to spend even MORE of my day looking for what broke and fixing it. Whoever is making these “cost cutting” decisions is actually adding costs and wasting everyone’s time.
It is true that despite the "hiring freeze" still hundreds of people are hired. The case I know about are 100's of developers from Eastern Europe. The reason is simple : equal if not better quality, but foremost lower wages than the traditional places. There's a clear tendency to put many supportive organisations in border regions of the EU. Development, support, validation functions, qualification functions, assembly ... to Eastern Europe, North Africa. Put on top of that the pretty strong regulations that protects employees in many of the Western European countries ... severance, wages, benefits, amount of holidays etc ... When the objective is to lower the operational cost and cost-of-sales ... that's the approach.
This just simply isn’t true. Dell is on a hiring freeze globally until further notice. Also layoffs are currently ongoing not the other way around. I suggest you put the rest of the crayons in the box vs in your mouth.
Gross post. Please keep your racism to yourself.
@ujs+1kRiAZpT Worst comment I have seen on this page.I actually am waiting for a package and understand the frustration from US and other English speaking staff but I think your comment is way out of line.
And before you ask I currently work in Dell in an English speaking country.
I hang up phone if have to deal with Indians overseas. Their English is horrible and they’re d-mb and stupid……..won’t waste my time. Everyone needs to do like US Gov and many large US Corporation requiring US citizens for all services!
Not surprised. I stopped buying dell products years ago because of quality issues. Now I know why things went downhill.
whole teams in India have been made redundant in the last few weeks (S & P teams for example)...
The Americans are expensive and add more drama, pushback, and bureaucratic attitude than value. The Indians work non stop. Sure, many produce low quality work, but not all, and at a fraction of the price.
Not cool. I have Indian colleagues and they're great
Folks from India ( Bangalore) most qualified and hardworking than folks from anywhere. So Dell saving on money and at the same time getting quality peeps.