Spent 21 years at Dell with two tours of duty. The first 14 years were awesome! After a string of bad decisions by Rollins (Bain), Michael had to take the reins back and go private back around 2014. Lots of people were given the opportunity to leave voluntarily or involuntarily. I took the package and had a great job lined up the next month. Dell's staffing levels were cut to the bone, and they recruited me back after 13 months with a bump in pay and a $10K signing bonus.
Spent 7 more years at Dell/EMC and survived multiple reorgs and RIFs, and realized the Dell Execs were spending more time protecting their organizational turfs than dealing with competitors eating our lunch. I left for a new position in May 2021 as I saw this coming. Continuous "guardrail to guardrail strategy" with the EMC acq is a great example, and that reorg was a bloody fiasco...(Bain Consulting strikes again!). Tucci and Michael were the only two laughing all the way their way to the bank. The only person that ran this company extremely well was Michael. Clarke is a good second banana but he's not a top banana. If you were lucky to survive this round, congrats. But if history is any indicator, Dell employees may want to think about an exit strategy. I've received about 20 LinkedIn notes from former coworkers, and it breaks my heart.
JMO, and good luck to everyone who was affected.