{"id":8314,"date":"2019-04-25T20:46:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T20:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=8314"},"modified":"2019-04-25T20:46:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T20:46:45","slug":"the-information-technology-industry-comparing-the-cultures-of-adobe-dell-hp-ibm-and-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/the-information-technology-industry-comparing-the-cultures-of-adobe-dell-hp-ibm-and-intel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Information Technology Industry: Comparing the cultures of Adobe, Dell, HP, IBM and Intel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five companies heavily involved in the Information and Technology Industry will meet in our digital arena today so we can determine which of them has the most robust, satisfying company culture according its employees \u2013 who submitted their sentiments anonymously via Comparably<\/a>. We stayed away from the more obvious companies that we’ve covered before elsewhere (so no Apple or Google or Amazon today) to focus on Adobe<\/a>, Dell<\/a>, HP<\/a>, IBM<\/a>, and Intel<\/a>, to see how their employees felt about working at each.<\/p>\n

OVERALL CULTURE<\/b><\/p>\n

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The first little gold trophy goes to Adobe, for their vibrant culture which is very much appreciated by their employees. Dell and HP’s employees voted those two companies with solid-but-unspectacular B grads, and IBM and Intel’s workers voted their workplaces in the disappointing C range.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Adobe: <\/b>\u201cAdobe is very inclusive. All employees really embody being genuine, involved, exceptional and innovative.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dell: <\/b>\u201cDell has a good culture – people are driven and work hard. Sometimes, this aspect creates a toxic environment where no one has work-life balance. Work goes with you wherever you go, leading to burn out. Top down, there is opportunity to rethink what is priority and what can wait until the next morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

HP: <\/b>\u201cHP Inc is a global company and the culture will vary across countries and departments. in general I found HP to have a lot of employee friendly policies and also are the most flexible in allowing people to move across countries for growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

IBM: \u201c<\/b>Culture is cut, cut, cut on resources, then expect those who are left to do the work of 3 without commensurate acknowledgement. Peers are collaborative and professional ALWAYS – but marketing is currently a particularly toxic environment due to forced relocation, ridiculous level of attrition and related skill flight\/institutional knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Intel: <\/b>\u201cAll in all, a decent place to work. The biggest drawback is the inability to develop and stick with a strategy resulting in endless reorganizations and lay-offs. This cycle wears people down emotionally.\u201d<\/p>\n

CEO & LEADERSHIP<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0It’s Adobe again, this time thanks to the popularity of their CEO, Shantanu Narayen, who beat runner-up Michael Dell by almost ten percentage points. HP’s Dion Weisler managed to sneak into the C range, leaving IBM’s Virginia Rometty and Intel’s Bob Swan to fight for last place.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Adobe: <\/b>\u201cShantanu is a great leader who makes bold decisions to move the company in the right direction. He’s humble and approachable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dell: \u201c<\/b>The executive level, c-suite and presidents and VPs need to align on the vision, strategy AND tactics. Leave staff\/leadership in a role long enough to prove the victory they just claimed, and got credit for, is sustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n

HP: <\/b>\u201cDion is well regarded and appears to be leading HP in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

IBM: \u201c<\/b>Most seem to think reasonably highly of her. I think most would agree that she’s a better than average fortune500 CEO. She has created a more clear vision for the company than we’ve had for a while. However, she and the rest of the board defer way too much to Finance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Intel: <\/b>\u201cRampant cronyism and nepotism needs to be purged. Gangster mentality for empire building is absolutely poisonous.\u201d<\/p>\n

COMPENSATION<\/b><\/p>\n

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Looks like Adobe knows how to win one of\u00a0these things. They take their third trophy in the third category,\u00a0which notes how employees feel about the compensation they receive. Intel\u00a0was ten points behind Adobe, with Dell and HP 5 and 4 percentage points (respectively) behind Intel. Last place goes to IBM.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Adobe: <\/b>\u201cThe ESPP and equity pieces are extremely helpful, and one of the main reasons I don’t entertain other offers when they come my way\u201d<\/p>\n

Dell: <\/b>\u201cIf you stay in one position you will nevyer get a raise or bump in pay. They make if very difficult to move positions internally and you always hear of someone coming in from the outside getting a better paying position within your department and doing the same job.\u201d<\/p>\n

HP: <\/b>\u201cThe salary, vacation are good. Currently a concierge service and legal service have been added to available benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n

IBM: <\/b>\u201cAs a woman I feel I am paid under my colleagues because I entered our LOB through a lower-paid channel, but deliver as much or more value.\u201d<\/p>\n

Intel: <\/b>\u201cMatch the stock given by other big tech corporations. We made almost $10 billion in profit last year and Intel spends billions to buy back its own stock. The least it could do is pay its employees fairly.\u201d<\/p>\n

PERKS & BENEFITS<\/b><\/p>\n

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Adobe leaves the competition in the dust in\u00a0terms of the suite of Perks & Benefits they offer, beating runners-up Intel and Dell by a wide margin. HP and IBM tie for last place with\u00a0average scores.<\/b><\/p>\n

Adobe:<\/b>\u201cGreat health care. A 4 week sabbatical after 5 years, 5 weeks after 10 years and every 5 years thereafter. Discounts on a number of services.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dell: <\/b>\u201cHealth, dental, vision, personal days, vacation days, bonus potential.\u201d<\/p>\n

HP: <\/b>\u201cRetention bonuses, yearly bonuses, and good beer.\u201d<\/p>\n

IBM: <\/b>\u201cRemote work. Opportunities to grow in a huge variety of different job types, clients and roles within the High-Tech industry. Nice open-office layout, great benefits, and very diversity-friendly environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Intel: <\/b>\u201c401k, basic eye, dental and health insurance, free fruit\/coffee, fitness center, special events, intel discounts.\u201d<\/p>\n

DIVERSITY<\/b><\/p>\n

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Someone certainly gave Adobe the magic formula for earning employee affection, as once again they win \u2013 this time for Diversity, or how the companies are rated by workers of color. \u00a0Dell clocks a modest, respectable score. HP and Intel struggle to\u00a0escape the C range that IBM is looking more and more at home in.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Adobe: <\/b>\u201cDiversity could be improved, but Adobe is working hard at increasing diversity at the company and is doing well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dell: <\/b>\u201cIntelligence, performance, diversity and professionalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

HP: <\/b>\u201cHP is working hard on diversity, better than most in Tech but we have work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

IBM: <\/b>\u201cIt’s a large focus in the organization to achieve higher inclusion and diversity. Some parts of the organization are doing a better job than others. The best I can say is it’s an intentional change by leadership to increase the diversity and it’s working.\u201d<\/p>\n

Intel: <\/b>\u201cOur team is 7 people including the manager. 4 are women. We are very diverse in terms of gender, ethnicity and nationality.\u201d<\/p>\n

OUTLOOK<\/b><\/p>\n

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Adobe: <\/b>\u201cThe company has allowed employees a good amount of job flexibility. There really isn’t anything we can’t do. It is incumbent upon us to find an opportunity and go for it. The only walls at Adobe are the ones we create in our own mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dell: \u201c<\/b>All is growing! No difficulties, only opportunities that haven’t been realized.\u201d<\/p>\n

HP: <\/b>\u201cThe Graphics and 3D print businesses are probably the biggest long term growth opportunities but in general, HP is firing on all cylinders. I certainly feel like I wound up on the right side of the Hewlett-Packard split.\u201d<\/p>\n

IBM: <\/b>\u201cI love the brilliant people and the variety of work\/innovation happening at any given moment somewhere in the company across any and every industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Intel: <\/b>\u201cWith so many reductions in force over past years, I’m just a number to this company.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adobe bats 1.000, winning<\/b> in today’s competition to suss out which of our five companies had the best culture. Nobody else took any trophies today, but it’s worth nothing that Dell and HP put up a good fight. The same could almost be said about Intel, but in terms of IBM’s low cultures scores, it suddenly dawns on us that some technology companies have been around for over 100 years at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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