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Virtustream at Dell - Hard work and little appreciation

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Dell for 4 years
February 18, 2019
Atlanta, Georgia
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Ability to work from home.

Cons

If you want a company that will work you to death, gives zero appreciation, small raises, and treats you terribly, this is the place for you. Virtustream is all over the place. They have way too much management and throw out senior director to anyone as long as they are completely incompetent and don't understand the product or operations at all. Public sector is an absolute train wreck and nightmare. Upper management gives it no attention, and the testing for the products that will run there is practically zero. The business tries to focus its talent and time into things that customers aren't asking for. They don't listen to you, and operations is horrendously anemic. Another main issue is that the company basically encourages bad employees. You work like crazy, and another employee does almost nothing. Good work, team, carry on. You work an entire weekend, up till 4 am on Saturday. Good job, pat on the back. 80 hours of work in a week might occasionally get you a $100 "reward" for your efforts. Enjoy your $2 an hour of overtime. The company basically treats its employees terribly. My family has had to have an intervention with me. A previous coworker I worked with had a similar experience and was encouraged to quit for her health from being so stressed and exhausted.

Advice to Management

Listen to your employees. There is nothing worse than trying to cheap out on operations and paying your employees as little as possible.

There is a serious issue with the culture. If your employees are happy, they work hard for you. They do anything they can to help and make sure the customer is happy.

I really hope Virtustream makes some serious changes with how they treat employees. The company has a high turnover, and it is very expensive.

Giving almost nothing for significant additional work and time outside normal work hours is a major issue and needs to be addressed immediately.

Also, the company needs robustness, not more features. Adding this appliance and this feature means nothing if it doesn't work.

There is a desperate need for more operations, more testing/QA, and more attention to the public sector.

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