All one has to do is look at the earnings. I guess many are afraid to venture out and get another job

EqualLogic still making money, SC Compellent s---s and no layoffs in Hopkinton until end of October. Enjoy your summer.

Project managers and network engineers have apparently already started getting chopped. HR people were chopped a little while back. The scuttlebutt is the entire Seattle office is going to be shuttered.

Massive layoffs starting at Dell EMC Isilon in Seattle. Condolences to the s---ers who actually believed Michael Dell that he wasn't going to do that.

How common is QA used as a punching bag? Can QA be held responsible for the project delays??? Is it a healthy practice to have a tame QA Manager (aka rubber_stamp) report into SW Engineering Development Director (aka nut_cracker)? Share….your story... — read more 

I realized today that my manager has bunch of meetings titled "Private Meeting" this week and most of them are in 171 South street. It's quite unusual because he rarely has meetings outside of 228. I think higher ups are asking for names to roll... — read more 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/19/venture_cap_biz_hires_former_emc_ceo/

Dell EMC storage has so much of fluff. Teams working on products which do not have any roadmap. Thick management layers with Senior Directors and directors reporting to directors reporting to directors. Senior managers reporting to senior managers... — read more 

Reading thorough these posts it's easy to see. Things aren't going so swell- Somebody better Tell Dell!

The combination of DELL EMC offerings will bring solutions to market that cannot be offered by any competitor. I get it. It's a fantastic thing. I'm not the first to express how thankful I am to have been a part of the EMC legacy. I've watched... — read more 

For the years our team has had terrible scores for it's manager and he doesnt share them at all with us. He just complains about how disloyal we all are. Then retaliations start No one reads Tell Dell or actions any of the changes. Is ignored in our... — read more 

Storage is dead - 3 years ago a VMAX was 11 bays wide - now it only takes 1/2 a bay for same storage capacity - wait a few more years and it will be in a shoe box or on a memory board in the server

It is the season as they say.

So much talk on here about dell laying of this person because of long time status or what not. Rather sad--- what I personally think is: they need to start with the attitude problems: • I see SO MANY people with massive holier–than–thou attitudes... — read more 

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2017/06/08/dell-reports-significant-pc-growth-in-q1-but-debt.html https://seekingalpha.com/article/4080080-dell-technologies-dvmt-q1-2018-results-earnings-call-transcript

JC Penny did not know what the hell they were doing and so is Dell , Keep changing keep changing and duct tape solutions Ruined SonicWall DSG and many more

Is it better to stay with Dell/EMC because I may get a fat severance package or accept 220k offer from competition (40k raise with 35k in base pay). I am 50 plus and long time EMC employee. If Dell bonus is not 100% funded raise could be actually... — read more 

Have any legacy Dell been laid off recently? What was the offered package?

I was just laid off in Hopkinton after nearly 25 years at EMC. Severance package is good: 1 year pay, 2 years health insurance (given my age and length of service.) Kinda glad I was laid off since I then found out the 2016 retirement package... — read more 

I mean NDC, MDC and Hopkinton ?

Read and weep those who can actually understand the numbers. Non GAAP , so where is the GAAP earnings. Reorg coming. http://investors.delltechnologies.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=254397&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2279778

It was clear last week. The head of mid-range Storage announced in Minnesota design center that there will be no further work on Compellent. EMC will focus on unity and the next-gen. It is the herald of the end of Dell Storage ie if you want to... — read more 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/05/dell_emc_ordering_system_in_chaos_following_merged_customerdatabase/

Seems odd that they are always hiring even in my business unit. I see a lot of people jumping ship to partners and other vendors but days later they are opening up that position again. My guess is that they are cutting all of the development staff... — read more 

Dell is not a team, it's a cult - the cult of Michael. Everything that happens in that company is done to stroke that ego. You may also want to look a the $800+ million that Dell has set aside for layoffs this year. Not a guess, not a speculation... — read more 

That's it for today!

Cheezy http://business.financialpost.com/fp-tech-desk/cio/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-no-its-captain-canada-at-dell-emc-world-where-they-discuss-digital-transformation

C-levels are commodity labor as much as anyone else. They've got their cookie cutter policies they learned at business school in the breaks between coke parties, and their career track consists of moving from the top spot in one company to the top... — read more 

Our Data Protection numbers are way down. Rubrik and Cohesity have been killing it. If you look at LinkedIn you will see all of my friends jumping ship like the old days of Pure. Data Domain is one of the most profitable products we have so even a... — read more 

Dell Services merged into NTTDATA services. After merger as usual layoffs have begun from 2016-Dec. Jun-23 is another big cut. Numbers are secret. But it is across all Dell Services organizations. NTTDATA/Dell Services does not require demanding... — read more 

As a new manager at Dell EMC Bangalore, i am scared to hell of TellDell scores and its implications. The results will be out next month. I have heard managers have been fired in Dell if they get scores.I am not anticipating high scores from my team... — read more 

http://www.businessinsider.com/hpe-apologizes-to-salespeople-for-messed-up-compensation-system-2017-5 Dell pays its Sales People well and if they don't perform they call it PIP . Most Dell employees get to voice their concern over raised quotas.

At current economy you just cannot afford to be laid off if you did not do your time enough for a good package. However there are ways to survive if you do not know the L2s and L3s at first name basis, and your manager already has a favorite, here is... — read more 

Workday will basically be the best investment to cut all the transactional operation costs when it is ready. If you are in HR gtfo. All will move to India. Dell follows other companies, never a leader. The same will happen.

For those of you commenting on this board that are either promoting Dell or saying that only the "dead weight" will be cut, you need to wake up to reality. Dell, or any other large company for that matter, cares nothing about their employees. Their... — read more 

As a technical woman past 50 yo who's only been with the corp a few years, I feel extremely vulnerable. It would be cheap and easy to get rid of me, since I'm in a position with redundancies across both sides, my counterparts are in RR with more... — read more 

August is the beginning of 2nd half, expect BIG, BIG, BIG changes in staffing and compensation starting then. Culling of the herd will take place mid-July as those being cut will get notification that they have 2 weeks to find a new position... — read more 

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/business/2017/05/18/ibm-remote-workers-head-back-office-leave Metrics Metrics and More Metrics is needed. Dell is the same , Oracle, HP.