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Senior Principal Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Dell for 4 years
December 4, 2015
Round Rock, Texas
3.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Fluid environment with significant potential to move horizontally across organizations.

Vast enterprise with software, hardware, and IoT across many organizations.

Dell's vast consumer and enterprise footprint pretty much guarantees you will work on a product/service that will be used by large amounts of users.

401k benefits are good, and being a private company, bonus awards and long-term incentives are cash-based (not too shabby).

The company incentivizes patent generation and promotes peer-submitted cash award submissions aggressively.

Cons

Health benefits (and health benefit options) have become progressively diluted over the years and are below average to bad.

Software expertise and talent is below where it should be, and executive leaders tend to stay put for much longer than they should. A fertile ground for cronyism and senior staff that like to stay below the radar.

Advice to Management

Decisions exclusively based on cost tend to dilute talent pools and dampen innovation.

Must improve your software talent acquisition efforts across all divisions and organizations.

Health benefits are progressively becoming a key talent retention decision factor.

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