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Benefits are nice. It will make you appreciate your other jobs. Bonus is decent, but just leave the day after you get it.

Any hope of keeping up with modern tech stacks here is minuscule.

Most of the company does not do any work on the cloud. When they do, it's not Azure/AWS but rather PCF.

In Austin, the management is full of ex-Dell employees that look out for each other. So you end up with engineering managers who probably don't know the first thing about coding basics or current trends in the industry.

They are also afraid of the business team. Management will lie to your face about being innovative and pushing the envelope.

Really, what ends up happening is you either take over some old, poorly written legacy applications that the business team has no desire to re-write, or the business team will buy a poorly written COTS product that is not enterprise-ready.

Finally, they are cheap. No benefits like decent laptops (you will get a heavy brick), cafeteria, gym, or training outside of new college hires.

Company morale was bad after the layoff. Only come work here if you are towards the end of your career and just want something to sail into retirement with.

Finally, the employee discounts are a joke. You can bargain yourself that same deal.

Try to actually grow a spine when dealing with the business team.

Stop the huge preferential treatment to Dell employees.