2.0
May 9, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
The pay is pretty good. There are very smart and driven people at Dell, you rarely run into incompetence.
Cons
You are a commodity, nothing more. If you let them they will work you to death, literally. Metrics are used and abused to a fault in making decisions. Not everything can be measured. I spend at least half my working time reporting on what I do to a various other areas of Dell. This was supposed to be reduced but actually got worse because they came up with more metrics to measure how we waste our time. This is most likely because 80% of my management has no experience in the field they manage and rely on "dashboards" of metrics, most of which are measured in a way to look good, not be an accurate view of the situation.