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On average, employees at Digital Equipment Corp. give their company a 4.3 rating out of 5.0 - which is 10% higher than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. The happiest Digital Equipment Corp. employees are Senior Program Managers submitting an average rating of 5.0 and Manufacturing Managers also with a rating of 5.0.

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4.3
Average Rating
(based on 235 Digital Equipment Corp. Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
4.2
Growth Opportunities
4.1
People You Work With
4.5
Person You Work For
4.4
Rewards You Receive
4.1
Support You Get
4.3
Way You Work
4.3
Work Setting
4.2
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Senior Project Manager

What do you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"DEC was a very technical environment and allowed freedom to be successful"

What don't you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"too many tree huggers and overlapping channels"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"delegate and get out of the way."

Software Engineer

What do you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"Working for Digital Equipment Corp was probably the most interesting and exciting opportunitiy I have had as a Software Engineer. I was able to be engaged in first-in-industry types of projects developing and enhancing an operating system (OpenVMS) and products (Apache, Kerberos, SSL, and disk structures) which are used in many of the most critical industries around the world."

Company-Industry Rating Comparison

4.3
Digital Equipment Corp. (418)

4.7 Highest Rated in this Industry is Sigma Designs (5)
2.2 Lowest Rated in this Industry is Polara Engineering (6)
3.9 Average of All Companies in this Industry (20,231)
Principal Hardware Engineer

"Very nice and organized."

What do you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"Dynamic and productive environment."

What don't you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"Change over to Quantum corporationa and lack of a definitive future path."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Define 2-5 growth path."

Account Representative

"good company"

What do you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"good company, good products"

What don't you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"big company"

Equipment Services Project Manager

What do you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"Excellent Training, management support, positive and constructive feed-back and fair pay and benefits."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to your employees better."

Technician

"Great place to work far ahead of its time."

Programmer Analyst

"Many opportunities to move around, grow, and remain at Digital"

What do you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"There were many talented people there developing interesting technologies for the time."

What don't you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"It was easy to get lost in such a large and dispersedcompany"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They should have been able to change with the changing technological climate."

Senior District Engineer

"interesting"

What do you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"constant learning"

What don't you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"it ended"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"adapt to market"

Senior Software Engineer

"Excellent company!"

What do you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"Research oriented, Great Team of engineers and lots of stuff to learn"

What don't you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"Not enough focus on marketing products. Great products but little selling strategy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Sell ! Sell ! . Bring Customers and retain customers."

Systems Consultant

"One of the best engineering companies in the world at the time"

What do you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"The quality of the products and engineering staff"

What don't you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"Nothing"

Contracts Administrator

"Good Size Company with challenges"

What do you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"Exciting customers, benefit pkg, big company, lots of resources"

What don't you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"Not in touch with their employees, duplicate jobs"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They were purchased by Hewlett Packard soon after I was layed off"

Engineering Manager

"DEC was wounding down in 1995"

What do you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"They have great technolgies and people"

What don't you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"It was wounding down. DEC was too big to make changes by the time I left."

Manufacturing Manager

"A GREAT Com-pany to work for while it was in existance"

What do you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"The employee family capabilities"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None, since it doesn't exist anymore"

Process Strategist Planner

"Digital equipmet was one of my best growing experince; good compensation, people oriented, and technology ahead."

What do you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"I worked at Digital Equipment corporation until 1991 (comany acquired later by apple). Digital was a place for learning, with many challenges, and a good working environment."

What don't you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"From digital I like the profesionalism, the technology, the opportunities to grow and the compensation."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Continue looking ahead by setting the appropiate goals and strategy to maintain the delivery and the quality of products or services. Care for people as the best resource of the company"

Business Planning Analyst

What do you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"Team Environment"

What don't you like about working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

"Organization, roles, and responsibility changes seem to be endless"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Clearly communicate corporate objectives to all employees"

Digital Equipment Corp. Reviews FAQs

Is Digital Equipment Corp. a good company to work for?

Digital Equipment Corp. has an overall rating of 4.3 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 235 Digital Equipment Corp. Review Ratings left anonymously by Digital Equipment Corp. employees, which is 10% higher than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 99% of employees would recommend working at Digital Equipment Corp..

Does Digital Equipment Corp. pay their employees well?

Digital Equipment Corp. employees earn $70,000 annually on average, or $34 per hour, which is 6% higher than the national salary average of $66,000 per year. 3 Digital Equipment Corp. employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find Digital Equipment Corp. Salaries by Job Title.

How satisfied are employees working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

99% of employees would recommend working at Digital Equipment Corp. with the overall rating of 4.3 out of 5. Employees also rated Digital Equipment Corp. 4.2 out of 5 for Company Culture, 4.1 for Rewards You Receive, 4.1 for Growth Opportunities and 4.3 for support you get.

What is the highest paying job at Digital Equipment Corp.?

According to our data, the highest paying job at Digital Equipment Corp. is a Senior Sales Executive at $200,000 annually. Browse Digital Equipment Corp. Salaries by Job Profile.

What is the lowest paying job at Digital Equipment Corp.?

According to our data, the lowest paying job at Digital Equipment Corp. is a Repair Technician at $20,000 annually. Browse Digital Equipment Corp. Salaries by Job Profile.

What are the pros and cons of working at Digital Equipment Corp.?

According to reviews on CareerBliss, employees commonly rated the pros of working at Digital Equipment Corp. to be Company Culture, Growth Opportunities, People You Work With and Person You Work For, and no cons.

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