After VCE was acquired by EMC which in turn was acquired by Dell we've witnessed - and are still witnessing - what Dell calls 'harmonization' of roles, processes, benefits, salaries and procedures. Instead of harmonization they should have called 'vandalizing' or 'thrashing' or 'defacing' or 'destruction'. Development of products that were successful for years has been stopped. Successful Account Managers have been prevented from seeing their clients with the result that the relationship that they had formed throughout the years has been completely disregarded for the advantage of the Account Managers closer to the Dell leadership. Processes that had been working for years have been scrapped and replaced by 'standard' processes that make sense for one organisation, not all of them. Organizations that have been successful have been forced to work in different ways, with the obvious result of mass exodus of talent that had been in the company for years. We have been force fed meeting and twits and presentations and cons call about how brilliant and seamless the merge has been. Well, really? no. So, if you are planning to work for this company make sure in the interview you ask the right questions, because this has become a massive, awkward, clumsy, bulky corporate environment where individualism is a swear word.
