Mainly sales roles and overlaps got cut
Overlaps were things like specialty roles or channel engineers who will have their responsibilities assumed by Core or partners
Cuts were not only money based, but performance based
Managers of teams (at least the few I work with) chose themselves who got let go no matter what they tell you
Managers sent out two calendar invites, one for the person getting laid off and another private outlook appt for HR .. this is why hr isn't on your invite
Invites for layoffs this round seem to be called 1x1 or 1 on 1 instead of the usual "Business Update"
DCSE title was eliminated .. they are standardizing on AE title
DCSEs are now AEs which is more notable i think for medium business sales , and the accts you line up to in GAMA do not reflect whether youre getting laid off (some ppl said they had no accts .. this will level itself out)
Most cuts in the US are over or will be ending today
Severance is still 8wks pay + 1wk per year of service in the US
Dell is moving as much as possible to customer-orderable interfaces like the Apex portal, but for other solutions to get rid of internal engineers and whatnot
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I havent seen such incompetency in leadership. Anyone can backstab to the manager and have a team member laid off. They dont want skilled performers who make the company successful, they want yes-men.
I was the top performer on my team. Only one over 50.
Out with the old. Age discrimination??
It's A sh-t show
Jeff Clarke does not get the storage business, he is PC oriented, easier to create a PC in an online app than enterprise storage units. I guess partners are the place to be
Interesting read- thanks
Sounds like standard Dell policy. Cut the support for what your strategy is supposedly leaning into.
Worked there for 30 years (don't miss it) and the one thing I can guarantee you from watching what they do over that time is this:
There is no strategy. There's just responses to business conditions that are usually lagging not leading.
Whatever C-suite proclaims is the new hotness will be replaced in 6 or 8 QTRS with something else previously proclaimed to be brilliant. Round and round we go.
Firing lots of high performers and/or anyone over 50 (or more likely just firing people randomly) is just how the corp removes anyone with legacy knowledge of the fact they are ultimately just vibrating in place thru time and don't want anyone around to remind them of it.
None of this should be news to anyone actually familiar with how Dell operates.
I'm with a Dell partner. If Dell is pushing more and more to partners, you would think they would be adding resources to the channel, not cutting them.
Lies. Everyone who was cut was a superstar making gazzillions for the company.
Associate systems engineer 2
Let go on Monday.