As someone who joined dell as a first job, I was quite puzzled by the way things worked. A lot of work is done manually, hard coded excel files, slides with walls of font size 8 texts and numbers, wrong data presented, “excel database”, screenshot data dumps, the list goes on. Am I the only one puzzled?
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It's always been that way. JGE- Just Good Enough. Even worse is the culture of ill-defined processes and ambiguity. Both demons prevent the development of productive and deployable AI driven solutions. Dell is one of the worse companies anyone would want AI driven solutions from.
Dell is far from a good model. Dell isn’t a technology company either. Its operation and manufacturing.
To gain experience go work for a smaller or medium company that is software focused or really is building technology. Dell isn’t innovative nor interesting. Certainly not Agile.
This is literally every large company that has grown through acquisitions. It’s not a Dell thing. Multiple systems and processes carry over, nothing new.
Every company runs on Excel at some level. There is a cool kids club in most big companies. Dell isn't special. Everything you called out goes on at AWS, HPE, VMware, etc.
You’re in your first job…in meetings with mostly people well down the totem pole. Yes, you get screenshots of reports and excel files of partial data. Access to the tools, people, and capabilities that generate that data are reserved for the 20 layers of organizational structure above you. Enjoy princess.
Bless your heart
"Large tech companies like Dell, one would think would be “high tech”"
There are plenty of large tech that's high tech. Google, Microsoft, Salesforce goes on and on
Dell is just a dinosaur. Stop trying to sugar coat it.
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examples please
There are no agile dinosaurs
Be careful what you wish for. Some of the systems that have been developed internally make you wish you could use Excel.
Bwahahaha. So funny it hurts. Cuz it’s true.
Be careful what you wish for. Some of the systems that have been developed internally make you wish you could use Excel.
Large tech companies like Dell, one would think would be “high tech” but are typically very antiquated in the back office systems. At least that’s been
my experience working for EMC and subsequently Dell.