Dell really was a great place to work up until about 2 years ago. Then everything went to he-l. The biggest change was they brought Bain in who is clearly giving them terrible advice. I’ve let go of more people in the past 2 years than I ever had in my career.
Every single person I talk to is paranoid, demotivated and has no idea what the strategy for the company is or where it’s going.
It’s just layoff after layoff after layoff. People are paralyzed with a lack of work to do in many cases and they have a general lack of motivation.
This leadership team that has been recently constructed is terrible. They really have, at best poor decision making skills and have proven to be utterly incompetent. The closest thing to any strategy has been to create the “AI Factory” which people can see right through. They’ve done nothing new or relevant for the past couple of years.
They’ve ripped apart various product groups that were making money, are doing major consolidations of our cash cows and allowing decision to be made for engineering from people who have literally no idea what a day in the life of a software developer is about.
Meanwhile, they’re worried about how many days a hybrid person comes into an office? Really? That’s what concerns you? Much like an incompetent parent though there are no consequences so that’s just a waste of time.
I’m looking for a new job. If you aren’t you should. I’m not sure Dell is going to be able to recover from this. They talk about another 40 years. They should take it 40 days at a time. If they keep this up, they’ll just slide into being irrelevant.
Would love to hear theories from others.