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Very low standards

Senior Java Developer
Former Employee
Worked at Dell for 1 year
January 27, 2023
Bucharest, Bucharest
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

The only pro that I can think of is the company name and reputation on your CV.

Cons

Dell is the first company where I've seen junior developers much more skilled than senior principals. You see on a daily basis a junior teaching them how to use basic tools like Git or teaching them programming fundamentals like OOP, patterns, etc.

Public shaming and insults cast by the team leaders are on a daily basis. They are especially targeted at women.

You will get a "budget" laptop, which can barely handle all company-installed spyware/crapware (ex. keylogger, click-zone, app history, idle time, camera, microphone, etc.).

Overtime is the law. It's the only way.

Technical aspects:

You don't have admin rights on your laptop. That means you can't install anything. Either you use non-existing or non-working in-house made tools, or you program them yourself if you want to be able to get some work done.

Whatever fancy stuff you read in your job description is fake. Take for instance Azure/AWS Cloud. No, you will use an in-house "cloud" which actually never works.

CI/CD in this company means the following: you have a manual release after 1 year if you're lucky. Of course, it does not work. You "park" the project for 2-3 years. You "decommission" the project.

"Modernization. Upgrading a legacy monolithic app to micro-services" means the following: You're supposed to copy and paste the old code from one repository to multiple repositories. So you get a distributed monolith. It is to be noted that even the code from this 5-year-old monolith was copied and pasted from a 20-year-old monolith.

There is much more to talk about Dell, but I think you got a realistic picture of this company.

Advice to Management

To be honest, besides mass resignation, there isn't anything I can recommend you. :)

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
1.0
Culture and Values
1.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
5.0
Career Opportunities
1.0
Compensation and Benefits
2.0
Senior Management
1.0

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