Very low standards - Senior Java Developer Dell Technologies Employee Review

1.0
Jan 27, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The only pro that I can think of is the company name and reputation on your CV.

Cons

- Dell is the first company where I've seen junior developers much more skilled than senior principals. You see on a daily basis a junior teaching them how to use basic tools like git or teaching them programming fundamentals like OOP, patterns, etc. - Public shaming and insults cast by the team leaders are on a daily basis. They are especially targeted at women. - You will get a "budget" laptop, which can bearly handle all company-installed spyware/crapware (ex. keylogger, click-zone, app history, idle time, camera, microphone, etc.). - Overtime is the LAW. It's the only way. Technical aspects: - You don't have admin rights on your laptop. That means you can't install anything. Either you use non-existing or non-working in-house made tools, or you program them yourself if you want to be able to get some work done. - Whatever fancy stuff you read in your job description is fake. Take for instance Azure/AWS Cloud. No, you will use an in-house "cloud" which actually never works. - CI/CD in this company means the following thing: you have a manual release after 1 year if you're lucky => of course it does not work => you "park" the project for 2-3 years => you "decommission" the project. - "Modernization. Upgrading a legacy monolithic app to micro-services" means the following: You're supposed to copy and paste the old code from one repository to multiple repositories. So you get a distributed monolith. It is to be noted that even the code from this 5-years old monolith, was copied and pasted from a 20-year-old monolith. There is much more to talk about Dell but, I think you got a realistic picture of this company.

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5.0
Jun 27, 2026
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Pros

Very helpful and knowledgeable community, incredibly easy to talk to anyone in any part of the business. Gave me a wide range of experiences/projects.

Cons

Limited intern bonding opportunities when compared to Round Rock office.

3.0
Jul 4, 2026
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Pros

The people are the best part of this job. I have met so many amazing people in this role. Even some I would consider life long friends. I think the experience gained from this job has also been useful for any sales role you may need for any future endeavors in sales or the tech industry.

Cons

Upper management has made many changes to the compensation and the metrics which has for sure effected employee satisfaction. Turnover rate is insane as there’s a new hire class literally every month. Dell itself is running out of room and they are not making any new teams for the new hire classes which has left more tenured reps in a vulnerable position.

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