Transcript here: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4204606-dell-technologies-inc-dvmt-q2-2019-results-earnings-call-transcript
Layoff hitting Virtustream starting 9.17
A large round of layoffs will hit Virtustream starting on 9-17-2018. USA and EU will be hit. India was hit last week. If you notice your manager is out most of the week this week, that is because he or she is in required HR training on how to layoff... — read more
Discussion time
This is a job and we all want job satisfaction. We have enough directors dragging us into their political games as their main job description. Leaving is always a choice and with that aside how do you handle incompetent local boss who restrict every... — read more
It is sad
It is sad that Dell is so busy firing people when the useless directors and global teams continues to terrorize even the new employees. If you love them so much, move them to a department called Dell's Favourite Things and keep paying them while they... — read more
Money money cost cost
It is better to layoff expensive people who sits around than 10 cheap people who sits around. Basically everyone is sitting around nowadays except the stupid few who thinks what they do is going to make a difference. Whole year do nothing but one... — read more
It is a shame to work at Dell or Dell EMC ....
I guess only folks who are unable to compete in the market are left over here. Rotten work culture, r----ded managers who do not understand a bit of technology, bootlickers, people charmers are the backbone of the workforce. They work with an... — read more
It's time to layoff for older EMC Manager people
September starter with new layoff
Layoff implications due to Dell going public by end of year
Dell's going public without IPO through backdoor VMWare tracking stock. This is planned to happen by end of the year. This is the macroeconomic stuff. But what do we hapless proletariat class of engineers need worry about now. Going public means... — read more
Question
Hello, If you left DELLEMC with a package, can you get hired again with DELLEMC?
Rumblings about SDDC and VxRail
Been hearing some rumblings that SDDC and VxRail will be transferred from Dell Emc teams to Legacy Dell, putting many Dell Emc employees out of jobs ( myself included). Been hearing this for months and from several other co-workers from higher ups... — read more
Startups?
Anybody here has any experience with startups? I got an offer which I have been seriously considering, but I still can't get rid of that startup related fear - what do I do if it fails? There is very little job security at Dell, but I think the risk... — read more
Micromanage everyone to death.
The constant spreadsheets on every metric is supping the life of out of the support folks. I spend 1/3 or my day filling in spreadsheets about every aspect of a service request.And now we have to report to coaches and SMEs who no longer take cases... — read more
Silo
Great how siloed things are and when everyone has their own well paid well funded support structure for their silo and would still come to other department's support person for bird feed. Either you fire the VP for silos or fund the one person who do... — read more
How non performing managers abusing Dell .....
Many non-performing managers/directors abusing the system at Dell or Dell-EMC. Nobody is taking notice of this wrongdoing. There are managers who do not know 1GB equal to how many MB and yet manager at Dell-EMC - that's a shame. People with close... — read more
smart destination cyclone managers and super techies
All have started looking out. Many have been spotted while coming for interview. They knew they have fcuked DC up enough, so looking for other. Any one who is not happy with your company, please take anyone of them. Rest they will take care.
Security bugs in dell softwares are taking away custormers private data
Uninstall each and every dell made softwares from your computer or pay the penalty https://latesthackingnews.com/2018/07/16/tech-support-scammers-now-targeting-dell-computer-owners/
This is common phenomenon in EMC Bangalore. Techies are more political than technical
I dunno who these super techies often mentioned here. But since I relocated from Santa Clara to work in EMC CoE this has been my observation of last two years. The techies are all politicians. " That's why they are super techies. They can bend rules... — read more
Weeding out the older higher paid workers
What I find ironic is that being in my sixtes and suddenly on a PIP though my performance is at worst better than 80% of my peers that Dell is indeed trying to weed out the older higher paid workers. If this wasn't sad it would be funny. Dell is no... — read more
Psst... it's still there...
https://www.thelayoff.com/emc
A Record $2.5 Trillion in Mergers Were Announced in the First Half of 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/business/dealbook/mergers-record-levels.html
Millennials are going to be Dell's downfall
Dell can't survive if it gets rid of all the older employees (as it has been working hard on doing) and only employs millennials to fill the vacant positions. Most of them either don't know how to do their jobs or simply don't care and are just... — read more
Bangalore layoffs... any news?
Super techies still around? Bouncer???
Public
And they are going back public, let's hope it will fail just like last time. Crash and burn m------f----. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/business/dealbook/dell-deal-vmware.html
timestamps
It may be useful for readers if writers were to embed a date and time in comments, instead of "this week", "next month", "later this afternoon", etc. Include time zone as well (CST, PDT); but, if you're handy with arithmetic, or if you don't want any... — read more
DELL-EMC: workforce reduction facts...
According to Forbes: In 2016 (pre-acquisition data): EMC had 72,000 employees: https://www.forbes.com/companies/emc/ Dell had 140,000 (source does not say if this includes ex-EMC employees, I would guess not): https://www.forbes.com/companies/dell/... — read more
a trial to fight Dell will be held in Burlington Ontario on June 29
Dell did not pay a former developer several thousand US dollars incentive cash as promised. Dell may care nothing as Dell Burlington site will close soon....
Looks like the thread is dead
has everyone either left or laid off
Any rumors for sales in Round Rock in June!
Any skuttlebutt about what will happen to us in June? I haven’t seen any boxes of out the door this year.
How many people in MDC were impacted by layoffs?
What are the totals for MDC, NDC, ADC?
Layoff scheduled for 6/8 in RoundRock
I left Dell last year but heard from a buddy that’s in management that there will be heads cut in RR2 and RR3. Best of luck to any RR folks reading this.
Dell dominates worldwide storage market
https://www.crn.com/news/storage/300104646/dell-dominates-worldwide-storage-market-in-q1-2018-as-hpe-share-drops.htm
Carefull what you post
Please do not post Insider information, you can be traced.
MRES is in deep trouble
Latest round of layoffs proved that MRES is in deep sh$t. Cyclone is once again delayed and Jeff B. is trying very hard to pump optimizm to all lost souls who think they are safe for a while. I lost all respect for Jeff B. because he should have done... — read more
At least they lost less money this time around than they usually do, maybe the executives will reward themselves with extra bigger bonuses
[$$] Dell Technologies Narrows Quarterly Loss The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street JournalJune 5, 2018 Dell Technologies narrowed its first-quarter net loss to $636 million from $1.17 billion during the same quarter a year ago. " Appears Dell has... — read more
Mergers Rarely Work
I have been through a disastrous merger before, merger between two large companies (legacy/outdated) is rarely successful and in this case it is accompanied by massive debt. The acquiring company likes to believe they are smarter, they know how to... — read more
Dell,still losing money
https://investors.delltechnologies.com/news-releases/news-release-details/dell-technologies-reports-fiscal-year-2019-first-quarter
Discussion time!
Why outsourcing to India will hurt your business https://www.cio.com/article/2437890/offshoring/eight-reasons-why-outsourcing-to-india-could-hurt-your-business.html And why Indian managers s---. Execs love them but we do not!... — read more
Does Emc needs NDC for cyclone
NDC ended with EqualLogic in 2013, then started working on compellent till 2016, we all know the results as how many compellent MDC engineers got laid off and then moved to cyclone. May be it makes sense for development but not for QA. Every insider... — read more
DD
Any update on DD, RTP, etc.?
Roadmap
Sounds like the latest layoffs where because of a new storage / product roadmap. Can someone explain what the future roadmap looks like?