I wanted to seek opinion.. on whether faking or executing a project with dubious reports, status, hiding information from execs... will qualify for an Ethics issue? Whether asking for Head count when it's not needed.. quality for an Ethics issue?

I guess more should be moved. Dell employs 25,000 in India or 18% of its workforce. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/technology/ibm-india.html Say good bye to the overpaid, arrogant tech worker in the US…

Cuts in EMC Consulting, Pre-Sales and Sales groups started 2nd week if August and have been rolling weekly ever since. I know this from a personal point of view and staying connected with those still there weekly. This is reported to continue weekly... — read more 

Check out all the kool-aid comments (no layoffs ever at Dell, hiring massive #s, and so on): https://www.facebook.com/TheLayoff/posts/1450240098405775

There is going to be layoffs in Storage MRES in all sites in October. This will have impact in BDC storage. The head of this group was unceremoniously fired. They used the hr case of abuse against him to force her him to quit. There are couple good... — read more 

At least the new President of ISG was honest about ongoing cuts and dire state of product quality, the current President of DPS was worthless as usual. Her executive staff on the front seats look like they couldn't get a job anywhere else.

Most posts on this site seem to relate to EMC, anyone have any news relating to Dell Cherrywood?

I just had onsite interviews and I did really well! I'm certain I'll get an offer. I have 3 years experience. What's the typical salary for someone with my experience? The recruiter said the position was for a 90k salary but I'm guessing I can... — read more 

Dell is eating an elephant, one bite at a time. The other day I noticed on Linked-In a co-worker from the group I used to be in is now at a new position outside Dell and another person I knew that was a long term IC in DPS is now outside looking in... — read more 

How exactly do you see the ZZZ list? I tried typing in zzz09 and didn't get anything.

did hear people in cork being asked in certain groups if there is a package would they be interested, dont know how its going to be affected yet but sure do notice managers and supervisors looking nervous, if there is a so called package we better... — read more 

Is everything really moving to India? First IT, now everything else?

We know there is a lot of talk regarding portfolio simplification and XIO will probably be the first one out of the door. I don't think it will happen any time soon though. They will look at customer adoption for XIO v2 first and will try to make... — read more 

Dell is playing with the employment law in Ireland. Since they don't have to advertise nor let the government know if they let go less than 30 people in a period of 30 days, they are letting go of less than 30 per 30 days therefore no need to publish... — read more 

There are still a lot of bad bosses to remove. We know how hard it is to weed out these s---ers, and they take on a huge collateral damages in the process.

Engineers from both groups either got laid off or moved to a different department. Support engineers will be around for a bit due to contracts etc... Atleast they will have some time to find a new position if they want to stick around

The sales numbers are plummeting down four quarters. Netapp, HP, pure ..are gonna eat into Dell EMC market share. The current storage leadership can't hold a candle compared to their counterparts in other companies. They have risen up the ranks... — read more 

People seem to be completely forgetting about government contracts, infrastructure, etc. They're big, lumbering dinosaurs that are a continuous source of income -- not at all on the leading edge. Do they care about the latest innovations in storage... — read more 

minimum senior manager but depending on your gender and how many people you already know, you can be a senior director. Main responsibilities: 80% doing approvals, 10% exercising power to get back at folks that annoys you. 10% decision making based... — read more 

this is why most of the talk here is about t

MRES can't be the only group with problems. Or are they the red headed step child of Dell?

My bet is JB and CB gone by EOY, question is whether it's before/after Cyclone either fails completely or pauses to totally restarts with some realistic expectations that can be delivered before the end of the decade. Meanwhile, CML is eating their... — read more 

Now that David Goulden is gone I have heard that the EMC remains will get DELLized whatever that means. Could somebody enlighten me on the meaning of that verb (DELLized) ? I am thinking that since DELL is the survivor and EMC is the devoured then... — read more 

I just went through the list for zzz09 (September) and counted 1,136 names as of 09/16. This does not include everyone affected by the big layoff on the 13th, since apparently all of them will be zzz'd on 0922. That's a lot of people...

For all the rumors how many were cut this round? Maybe 100 of 2000?

FYI - HR manager returned my call today. Apologized for not returning call. Said all HR was offsite in strategy meeting. Not sure what that means.

Head of Dell/EMC, David Goulden - just quit. The dominoes keep falling.

We received an invite for an all hands meeting with the head of MRES on Monday. He is traveling to Bangalore for two days just to announce the new structure. Our incompetent abusive director is laid off unceremoniously. Although no official... — read more 

Any Layoffs planned in Singapore? The tax deal with EDB is set to expire in 2019. This means the cost of doing business for Dell SG will go up dramatically...

Almost all remaining senior engineers and managers let go today. This is after the first round abotut 6 months ago where 50% of people got axed. Only a handful of people retained and they will move to Santa Clara location. Wow considering EMC bought... — read more 

senior management aka the L2s decision to train their DRs and the mid management over and over white cutting off workers is stupid. They are creating a bunch of dependent, idiotic, indecisive and entitled to hand holding from above and below set of... — read more 

The CTO got the bullet two weeks ago and they've spent the day after the birthday celebration getting rid of anyone who was left over. Who needs R&D at Dell when Inside Sales will push any crap they can get their hands on? And crap will be provided... — read more 

Do you know what's going to happen with Performance Architects and other groups in Edmonton (VPLEX). Any reorg or layoffs plans here?

It's going on right now in hopkinton

Eventually the only companies that will be buying storage arrays are those that own cloud data centers and then it will mostly be for archive and nearline storage of cold but still possibly relevant data that their customers would rather not have on... — read more