What EMC Looks For When It's Hiring 223
Yvonne Lee, Community Manager at Dice.com, writes
"Because EMC has expanded through more than 70 acquisitions in eight years — it was hiring even during the recession — and because many of the acquired companies were startups, it is trying to leverage the more dynamic cultures it's inherited and make itself more nimble and innovative. People it hired 'need to be able to move fast and run,' Thus, a key to getting the company's attention is to prove you can do what you say you can. In other words, when Murray asks if you can work fast, you can't just say yes. You'll have to use your previous achievements to prove that you can."
To Yvonne Lee, from everybody reading this: (Score:5, Informative)
Please go fuck yourself. That's all.
Dice is horrible (Score:5, Informative)
Who else would promote a job with a company thats acquired 10 times a year as some kind of golden ticket? Every one of those acquisitions comes with layoffs and a whole new, cheaper staff - that's what nimble is a codeword for.
I listed my resume on Dice once, about 5 years ago. Worst mistake of my life. I don't even live in the US anymore, and still get about 2 dozen spams from con artist "head hunters" telling me about the latest exciting opportunity to be fucked over by some two week contract in timbucktoo.
Now I get spam on /. too! Hip hip hooray!
Re:Stay classy ./ (Score:3, Informative)
http://slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=check&uid=2836539 [slashdot.org]
What I look for when I'm job hunting: (Score:4, Informative)
Not EMC! Had to deal with them on multiple products at my last job and they were horrible. Their own professional services people would tell us so regularly. Their salesmen consistently lied about product capabilities and management at my company ate it up. Millions of dollars were given to them for what amounts to shelfware and their storage was swapped out for Hitachi because it also didn't live up to the promises. But because they're a "partner company" it was the ops department's job to eat as much shit as EMC could spew at us and like it.
EMC = Evil, Mean and Cruel (Score:5, Informative)
My wife worked there for several years. One friend commented when she started that it was a great place to have on your resume, since you'd be looking for a job after the layoff came. Sure enough, layoff comes, she gets a package, and now people are impressed that she worked there. The culture was best described as "macho", her management was from the "mushroom management" school, and the outsourcing stories hilarious. I'm amazed the place stays open.
Re:We need to nip this in the bud. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:We need to nip this in the bud. (Score:4, Informative)
With this level of person posting here, I don't think reason/rationality might help...this is a Silicon Valley B-Side person desperate for any job, who is willing to mess up slashdot for a living. She has few other options.
Re: Stay classy ./ (Score:4, Informative)
well you could see that it is submitted by the /. staff .'. it is a slashvertisement. if you want and you have and account you could just filter out all all of the stories submitted by the "slashdot staff" aka dice marketing drones, and only have user/editor submitted stories.
Re:We need to nip this in the bud. (Score:5, Informative)
EMC just laid off a lot of people (Score:5, Informative)
Ironic to hear them talking about what they look for when they're hiring - they just laid off a lot of people from their main company (and I think also from VMware.)
Re:Recommend alternate sites (Score:4, Informative)
Check out Reddit. The site works much better than Slashdot (especially the moderation system), the only problem is that the tech forums aren't as active.