Working at Dell in Round Rock, TX: 158 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Round Rock, TX Area

What do you like about working at Dell?

"Dell Inc is a fabulous company to work for. I left in 2006 to stay home with my children."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"At this time... good luck. Dell is a great company overall."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"Over 40 hours was the norm. They do not focus on work life balance."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus on work life balance. There is life outside of work."

"Not enough people to do the jobs assigned."

What do you like about working at Dell?

"There was a lot of flexibility in work location. Some managers actively tried to make it a fun work environment."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be very straight forward. Ask about comp time and if there are any management changes expected."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"Long hours. Unclear expectations, unrealistic demands. Culture of suspicion. Managers play while engineers get hammered with negative interactions with other departments."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"There is a very depressed mood around Dell. This cannot be entirely countered while there are layoffs going on, but some of it could be countered by not working your people so hard and providing clear expectations as to what rewards or compensation is available for going above the the requirements."

What do you like about working at Dell?

"I enjoyed working from home, great people, networking groups, travel and opportunities to live abroad."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure you are familiar with Dell's current strategy and where they want to be in 5 years."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"Long hours, unorganized management, lack of following through with promises."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would work more on engaging my work force and not just paying lip service to flexible work and work life balance and actually implement it in all areas of the business."

What do you like about working at Dell?

"I liked working with clients. Helping them solve issues with their computer systems."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure the people doing the interviewing are up to speed about the position and they actually want to be there to do the interview. I have seen HR people who did not have a clue. It was a poorly managed interview."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"I did not like having to recommend firing a person, although I would do so when necessary."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make sure you are putting the right people in management. I find some people did not have a clue about managing people."

What do you like about working at Dell?

"Dell was my dream job, I traveled worked closely with of sales teams and channel partners to grow the business."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Now the products and services Dell offers, I worked on the storage side so it was inportant to know storage on a basic level."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"Just the fact that my team was disbanded when we were making a true impact on the business."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None, I recieved all the tools and guidance needed to be successful in my role."

What do you like about working at Dell?

"I love testing servers/storage. I love finding bugs and helping improve the products."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Do your research. Interview the people interviewing you. Ask questions."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"Lack of planning turns into emergencies, not enough hardware to build configs."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Better planning, acquire necessary hardware for upcoming projects, create training goals for personnel."

What do you like about working at Dell?

"Leading the marketing and sales effort for DELL's foray into the IP video field with special focus on all storage mediums; SAN, NAS, ISCSI, Fibre Channel and direct attached."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be a true hardware expert and do not expect to turn the course towards software. Know services and service delivery well as DELL moves from a PC supplier to a services supplier."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"Not progressive enough and not understanding of the marketing revenue and time needed to seed the product."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen carefully to the end user and channel. Elicit communication and feedback from the IP Video leaders in multiple countries."

What do you like about working at Dell?

"Global exposure, and size of programs. Being able to work on mergers and acquisitions."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be structured. It is an environment with a lot of long term employees, and are assimilated to it."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"Large and cumbersome, like steering a ship. Changes take a lot of planning."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management understands and does well. Just to continue focus and eliminating barriers."

What do you like about working at Dell?

"Structure and GTM model, business unit alignment and regional staffing."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Know competitive stances and value props. Important to also know phase review process."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"Hardware oriented, need to go after the software business in a more unified manner."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Move from hardware focus into the more critical area of software solutions."

"Innovator to old guard drops value."

"Second favorite company to work for in years. PeopleSoft USA was #1."