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Dell: The best first and third place to work

Services Architect
Current Employee
Has worked at Dell for less than 1 year
June 5, 2008
Austin, Texas
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNo CEO Opinion
Pros

One of the few companies giving truly global and grand scale experience in all avenues.

Truly great people to work with. Best place to learn to think big and aspire to big things.

Fantastic place to try different jobs and expand your career opportunities.

You can literally have multiple careers, ranging from engineering to architecture, to marketing, sales, etc.

Cons

Government-like bureaucracy throughout the company. Most risk-averse environment I could ever imagine. No actionable interest in innovation from the management team. Strong 'blame' culture in the face of failure. No useful communication from executive leadership to their employees. Absolutely no avenues of advancement to the executive level; all execs are hired from outside. All real decisions come from external consulting teams.

Advice to Management

Promote to your senior leadership from within. At least 10% of the senior VPs should come from inside Dell.

Take risks by actually listening to what your employees and customers are saying. Stop relying on external consulting firms for every decision.

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