Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

@hk Does JC and MD read the posts on this forum and give two shiiiits how we really feel? He-l no.

Does JC and MD read the posts on this forum and know how we really feel?

@e8 Yes and no. If we look at the manager side it's been like that as long as I have been at Dell. It's all about how you get along with your manager and his/her manager. I've seen people being put in a manager/sr. manager position for the sole reason of having similar hobbies to the director or even worse, for being "funny". Utterly sh--e at their job and should never have been promoted to lead people because they were simply not leaders.

I think what's really changed over the last years is that the behaviour has seeped into the world of ICs as well. Years ago it definitely seemed to be the case that it was actually the competent people that reached higher grades, but now you see people that gets promoted to I8/9/10 that have no idea what they are doing and are dealing with things that are completely out of their skillset. This only gets progressively worse when they lay off people at the same levels that have been around for years and were the ones that actually knew what they were doing.

If a bad manager does very little or nothing at all, the business still goes on. If you do the same to the people that actually run the business, you're in for a bad time.

@d6 the only reason I signed on with Dell is because it WAS the first true meritocracy I’ve worked for in my big tech career. However, something has changed recently - or become clouded by executive leadership.
Need to return to true, honest values. Meritocracy. Integrity. On shore focus, take care of your employees, treat them as a part of the success - because they are THE reason for the success.

@av Dell is not a meritocracy, even though they try to feed you that bullsh-t. Who gets promoted or made a manager is almost completely down to who you know and how well you know them.

For the new hires there's a simple answer: Money (or rather, lack therof). Inexperienced people have lower salary expectations.

@av incompetent managers are easier to steer, manipulate etc..

Worst of all is not why they hire green ones but why they promote worst ones. The yesman factor

@a3 they do, you can buy stock like anyone else and you can get RSUs every year like a lot of us do

Is Susan an AI bot? Eyes wide open...

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https://youtu.be/bSz8uvq7IJc?t=40

Question: Why does Dell hire and retain so many incompetent, inexperienced managers and leaders who have absolutely no backgrounds or prior experience in the technologies they are managing? It makes no sense. Most are d-mb as dirt. That's just a fact.

@a3 Well Dell kind of does, but you have to earn it. What the thinking is behind not giving everyone access beats me as well, although we all know the answer in the end, I think.

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Why doesn’t Dell offer an Employee Stock Ownership Plan?