Dell Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Let's all lie to our customers to make sales"

What do you like about working at Dell?

"coworkers were very knowledgeable and helpful and fun"

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

"good money if you're ok with immoral sales techniques"

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"Selling poor quality for high prices while being told to lie to your customers about any and everything in order to make a sale is not fun or rewarding"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"make a better product"

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

"If you are not a VP, you can't make a difference"

What do you like about working at Dell?

"The potential is great; the reality is abysmal. The gym is nice."

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

"Be prepared for a multistage interview process taking weeks and team/panel interviews with stock behavioral interview questions prepared by HR."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"Very bureaucratic and structured. No consideration for the individual. Senior management is isolated from rest of company; middle management is out of touch with senior management and more focused on protecting their jobs, than taking a risk."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Decentralize senior management; allow access to any employees in company. Radical restructuring of Finance and HR groups and company policies necessary. Flatten hierarchy to no more than 5 levels; install one over one approval processes. Gut hiring processes through HR and require hiring managers to interview/hire candidates."

"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."

"Dell is ok"

What do you like about working at Dell?

"The experience and the breadth of knowledge you can gain"

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

"The managers are total stupid. You will get the job if you are average."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"No growth opportunities"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Give chances for good people"

"I enjoyed my time at Dell, I learned a lot, but it lost it's soul in 2000 - 2001"

What do you like about working at Dell?

"The daily challenges, and drive to excel."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"When it started getting too big, and lost some great people."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stick with the people and processes which made you successful...don't try to re-image yourself into some other company (IBM, Vanderslice, Montoya)."

"I enjoyed working at Dell and would go back."

What do you like about working at Dell?

"Working with a talented team, challenging and interesting projects, opportunity to travel."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"Too many lay offs."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Grow execs from within. Some of the hired guns from other companies seemed to care more about their careers than Dell's success and appeared to be using Dell as a stepping stone."

"Perpetual layoffs."

"good"

What do you like about working at Dell?

"Big name"

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"too many people idle"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"less manager"

"Great place to learn sales skills coming out of college"

What do you like about working at Dell?

"Working with many different accounts"

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

"Just be very professional with a desire to promote"

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"You were pretty micro-managed"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Trust your top performers"

"Short 3 month contract"

What do you like about working at Dell?

"Good work life balance"

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"One is limited to small set of work"

"1 year contract. Great company. Great employees."

"This review accurately describes my experience working for Dell."

What do you like about working at Dell?

"The vacation and holiday benefits were wonderful."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"The number of jobs that went overseas."

What do you like about working at Dell?

"It was exciting, often cutting edge and great for people who like a fast pace and learning on the fly."

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

"Be honest! If you really don't like a fast pace and dealing with change and ambiguity, you won't be happy there. This is a place to learn and grow quickly."

What don't you like about working at Dell?

"The hours were tough, it was difficult to get downtime."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep evolving - the model is looking better all the time"