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

"Dell is a great employer. My time there was the best."

What do you like about working at Dell?

"Development oportunities, meritocracy, focus on ethical practice and work/life balance."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"I can't really think of anything, there are little hicupps here and there as with any other company but in general there is not a single thing that I can say I realy truly dislike."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep up the good work."

"Immediate manager's management style is most important to career experience."

What do you like about working at Dell?

"I don't work there, anymore."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"As job responsibilities increase, compensation is limited by HR guidelines."

"Good place if you can find a good position, otherwise hell."

"Good company - learned a lot - very long hours."

What do you like about working at Dell?

"Access to new and beta technology."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"I worked as a contractor 3 years - it was impossible to get a permanent position."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Simplify the process of moving from contractor to permanent."

"Working at Dell was adequate at best."

What do you like about working at Dell?

"I made lifelong friends there, and had quite a bit of success as a corporate sales representatve."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"The enormity of the company sometimes made one feel like a number, promotions seemed to be based more on politics and/or nepotism than on performance, and, during my tenure, I witnessed first-hand some pretty unfair treatment of some of my colleagues."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Do not allow promotions to be given by upper management to their in-laws, or other family members. Employ a truly scientific, or mathematical, unbiased method of quota distribution rather than quotas based upon how the relationship between the manager and sales representative happens to be."

"Dell as an employer - Not good!"

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"Dell burns up their employees and then tosses them aside after off-shoring their jobs to India."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Dell's management needs to acquire some management skills. Dell has a lot of 1st-time managers who have no skills in good leadership."

What do you like about working at Dell?

"Friends."

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

"Good luck and wait for the burnout to kick in..."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"Management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None, because no one listens."

"The brutal truth"

What do you like about working at Dell?

"The first two years at Dell, 1995-1997 was the best work experience of my life. The following three, particularly when the layoffs began, were the worst in my life. I made the decision to leave the company 1 month after the 3rd round of layoffs in 2000 to work full time as a vendor to Dell and other companies."

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

"With Dell Be honest with yourself about whether or not you fit into their culture, if so, enjoy the ride. If not, run, don't walk."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"The culture has devolved to one of selfishness, fear and paranoia. People no longer care about quality, much less building things that will be easy to update in the future; it could be extremely frustrating."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make yourself indispensable."

"Could use some attention paid to employee satisfaction."

"Overall, Dell is a great company to work for."

"Great Place to Work"

What do you like about working at Dell?

"Chance to shine worldwide"

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

"Can do attitude"

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"Let good people go, open to offshore personnel who were not as good as onshore"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Let beyond the bottom line, you are loosong ground"

"Excellent company to work for."

"Good place to begin in the IT industry. Not at a good place for a career."

"Another PC company bites the dust :("

What do you like about working at Dell?

"Great team (excluding executive level). Get to do and learn lots of other job functions due to lack of career growth. No one micro managing you."

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

"Do not waste your time learning a dying business in a company on life support."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"Executive team. Executive team with guaranteed $20M+ a year deal that do not have to produce at least 10x of their pay. Executive team that do not know PC industry, products, or their customers. Always a follower never a leader."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Michael, wake up! You last round of executive hires is driving your company to the ground. By out sourcing everything, you have eliminated your revenue potential to save cost. No revenue growth no future. What made Dell #1 was a great team of employees (who developed, manufactured and delivered great products) and a small and agile executive team who did not need power points to generate power points."

What do you like about working at Dell?

"I liked interacting with the sales leadership in my liaison role between departments"

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

"Focus on the metric driven components of your resume and make sure this is the right fit."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"I didn't really like the specific duties of order processing, although they play an important role in sales support."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Help maintain a healthy work and personal life balance by allowing staff to work from home. This way overtime, doesn't seem as burdensome because it's organic."