Dell

Absolutely none. Nil. How can I fill five good words?

Age-old technology.

Senior engineers take decisions on how APIs should look, and junior engineers code it out. This model is so flawed that nobody takes complete responsibility for a component. Those who design APIs keep reworking because they lack insights into implementation details, and those who fill in the APIs have little idea of how it applies across components.

The legal team is a big letdown, and yet the company supports it with maximum trust. They have messed up so many employees through faulty applications, untimely filings, illogical suggestions, and so on. They are totally incompetent and walk unchecked, unaccountable for any glorious blunders they commit. I have personally seen more than a dozen of my H1B colleagues leave this organization just for immigration purposes. More are in line!! My advice: If you are on H1B, stay away from this place.

Being in the Bay Area and not having RSUs is like the biggest joke. Once Dell took over EMC, all RSUs were taken away, and most of us are left with 50% of TC. Only a small fraction of employees are getting long-term incentives, and that has been thrown like biscuits to dogs, in the range of 5K-10K for 4 years of vesting.

Even people at VP level discuss issues as small as why an API looks this way. Managers hold meetings all day to go through gory details of several components without having a clue of what they do and how they perform. Managers are zero-equipped with technical ability, and yet they work day and night on technical decisions.

By the way, this cry is all about DataDomain.

Work on a complete overhaul, or else you will go down like Tintri very soon.