For 4 years NDC claims to work on compellent along with MDC. Enterprise manager, Data collector and for past few years Web GUI. Development, QA, Sustaining, co-pilot in 2 sites. Is this company so dumb and inefficient. Now all the insiders moved to... — read more 

Hi all, I just wanted to write this to give people a glimmer of hope. I was an EMC employee for over 9 years. I never had any illusions of retiring from EMC (I started with them at 31 years old), but when they layoffs hit us in November 2017, to say... — read more 

The August layoffs are over. The second phase of layoff will be in September. There is going to be reorgs happening in Storage group to remove inefficiencies and redundancies. Most groups will be affected and layoffs are planned. The lists are... — read more 

There is a rumor that the package will change after Sept . It will not be as generous and change to a basic Dell package or no package .

Got word that CDW will begin selling Pure Storage September/October. EMC had an gentlemen's agreement to give them more kickbacks on deals. Since the major decline (as much as 60%) in EMC products going through CDW they have decided to begin selling... — read more 

VMAX people with huge salaries, bonuses, expensive parties, work from home, with no real solutions. QA in Hop 176 with fake resumes, references still have jobs should be eliminated. Everyone knows it but Dell should act before it's too late for... — read more 

Heard from our Mgr, layoffs will be happening once the bonus will be paid for legacy employees.It will be happening across the board in US,China and India.

i got punted 3 years ago - believe me you will be happier for it. plenty of places that you won't have to worry about a 'fellow' employee stabbing you in the back. dell is a den of vipers

Michael is going to be in Hopkinton on Thursday. He is meeting Storage leadership team in person for brief minutes. Wonder what will be his message.

NDC laid off full time employees and still kept consultants at 120$/hr. Does anyone think and know of managers/directors cut on this. This should be exposed. If this is true, this is truly ridiculous. Not sure what can be done about it, but the whole... — read more 

With all this layoff going on I really do wish they will axe directors. my director earns 5 times more but cannot for the life of her make any decision or provide any directions, instead let the consultants manage and run her department while she... — read more 

Can anyone please share what is the layoff package like ? Much appreciated..................................

Eventually both will control Hopkinton. Get rid of Walter as QA head, he is bribed by NDC. As a QA head he knows what is going on and he still doesn't care. He wants to keep his job and private airplane. He wants Dell to pay for everything.

From what I heard today XIO will not be around much longer

I really wanna say this. Lot of people work from home in Hopkinton and NDC. Some employees send email at morning 5 or 6 saying VPN is not working or unable to connect to blue or red networks. Or issues with pgnet. That's just bogus, it means a day... — read more 

The first phase of layoff in August is complete in MRES. Following sites were affected Hopkinton, NDC, MDC, ADC, Hopkinton and RTP. In NDC 30 people affected and MDC around 20 were affected. Folks from other sites please let us know in this thread... — read more 

3 years 2 months and counting, free paycheck with out any work. Seen some layoffs but they are just cost cut downs to meet numbers. There is huge discrepancy among work distributions, too many redundant teams and very few teams work very hard and... — read more 

From the numerous posts and rumours, Layoffs appears to be a reality. Need some advise from the forum on how this not-so-fancy list is prepared? Based on ones profile can someone predict likelihood to be in the list? Let's say someone has won highest... — read more 

If NDC team is a 6 in a rating of one to ten with ten being the best. BDC is a 2. The BDC team has spent three years to understand Equallogic which was developed in NDC and they can't even fix minor defects without breaking some other unrelated... — read more 

Seriously, Cyclone and Typhoon both s---s. Typhoon hardware based on Compellent firmware will be OEM to NetApp. Cyclone will never gets released, based on sub standard employees who works on it. Very fascinating as NDC claims to work on it, QA teams... — read more 

All bad and under skilled employees still have jobs. Dell should cut systems test QA.

Just curious because the news here seem to be mostly focusing on Hopkinton and Nashua

Does Dell or EMC offer any additional severance based on gender or age? Example.. Over 50. 16 years time of employee. Is severance a lump sun check or distributed over time? Is severance taxable? Do folks In Texas (Roubd Rock) get paid for unused... — read more 

take it or leave it.

Our normally calm and level headed director just went off on managers about protecting under performing employees. Then called in managers to ask details about specific employees. Winter is coming..... If what you are saying is true. This will be the... — read more 

I have credible info on layoff in MRES. It's gonna happen in three waves in August, September and October. This is across sites and geographies. I have personally given a named list to my manager from my team. I know for sure other peers of mine have... — read more 

Why are people in such denial that layoffs will occur. The merger of Dell and EMC reminds me of another failed "mega-merger" 20 some years ago that of Dec and Compaq it to was called a master stroke at the time but in fact like this most recent one... — read more 

How can I know if I am targeted for layoff. Can some of the seniors here explain what are the typical signs to watch out for. I have never been layed off before and would like to understand this whole process and be forewarned.

After a couple of meetings and calls that took remotelly, i want to share with you some insights. 1.Layoff are coming soon 2.Expensive reps are getting huge sales targets. Invitation to leave 3.Professional services structure to migrate 80% remote ps... — read more 

Ah, the irony... http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/technology/dells-executive-vp-has-a-message-for-techies-upskill-or-leave-2349629.html

There is so much mis-information and fake news here nobody knows what is happening. We are expecting George Clooney to show up to start mass layoffs just like in the movie Up In The Air.

Targets are insane. Does the business not want sales staff and this is a way to flush them them out of the business? We have had several resignations of top reps in the past 2 weeks and more to come. Top reason. Target is impossible and plan makes no... — read more 

Q3 layoffs are going to be one of the biggest in Dell and EMC history is what a top finance exec from Austin told me over coffee. This is intended to shake up the current system of decentralized management of disparate groups and bring all of them... — read more 

Anticipation was high in Hopkinton for Layoff action. I had a peaceful non eventful day at office. Are there any reports of layoff.

Half 1 has gone. Some layoffs, little changes. Unity to EOL, vmax is still working, poweredge as the main rock of the datacenter (r/t/m), vrtx, vxrail, fx, nutanix, xps, a lot of latitude, networking is cheap as huawei is but cannot compete with... — read more 

There are no news but there have been exclusive HR meetups globally and given the restriction and exclusiveness, could mean layoffs planned. Existing HR management are too incompetent to get anything moving, so watch out to HR global hires. These... — read more