"Insider" Profiles On Dell, HP, & Compaq From VaultReports.com.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 18, 1999-- Today VaultReports.com has released its updated company profiles on several major computer hardware giants. VaultReports.com (http://www.VaultReports.com), the leading provider of "insider" information on corporate America, takes a look inside tech titans like Dell Computer (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : DELL), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ), Compaq (NYSE: CPQ CPQ Compaq CPQ Conseil du Patronat du Québec (Canada) CPQ Configure-Price-Quote CPQ Conseil de Presse du Québec (Québec Press Council, Canada) CPQ Companion Parrot Quarterly ), and Gateway (NYSE: GTW GTW Gateway, Inc. (stock symbol) GTW Global Trade Watch GTW Grand Trunk Western (railroad) GTW Gatwick Airport GTW Global Trading Web (Commerce One B2B-platform) ) to find out what really goes on behind the scenes. The reporters at VaultReports.com spent over a year interviewing thousands of employees at high tech companies and have posted their results online. Employees were overwhelmingly happy with their jobs, citing excellent pay, benefits, and a lax dress code. However, the computer hardware industry is not for everyone, as employees complained of long hours and a high stress environment. For those willing to grind out the long hours, the industry has proved to be exciting and extremely lucrative. The web site is stocked with revealing quotes recently gleaned from employees, such as: -- Dell Computer (NASDAQ: DELL)- "Everything moves quickly here. Working at Dell is like jumping out of an airplane with your hair on fire. We call it Dell-ocity." http://www.vaultreports.com/links/DellProfile -- Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HWP)- "The key word here is informal...Even the CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. has a cubicle. He has a real big one, though." www.VaultReports.com/links/HewlettPackard -- Compaq (NYSE: CPQ)-"Compaq has a culture that employees have grown to love. It pays its people well and rewards successful ones. It is definitely a team effort, with everyone pulling together." www.VaultReports.com/links/Compaq -- Gateway (NYSE: GTW)- "Monthly profit-sharing checks are great and come in handy Verb 1. come in handy - be useful for a certain purpose be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" around Christmas time, when the checks tend to be larger due to increased sales volume." The profit sharing profit sharing, arrangement by which employees receive, in addition to their wages, a share of the net profits of a business. The purpose is to give them an incentive to increase their output through enhanced morale, less wasteful use of materials, better care of makes the employees, "feel like owners and not just employees." www.VaultReports.com/links/Gateway The VaultReports.com web site provides hundreds of free snapshots on the leading high tech companies. VaultReports.com also publishes the Vault Reports Guide to the High Tech Industry, a 416-pp., first-ever "insider guide" to the leading high tech companies. It can be ordered by visiting www.vaultreports.com/links/HighTech or calling 1-888-562-VAULT. It is also available in major bookstores. About VaultReports.com Last month,VaultReports.com was one of only two career web sites honored by Yahoo Internet Life as "Best of the Best Sites for 1998." Based in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , VaultReports.com publishes "insider" guides on over 1,500 companies and 50 industries. Vault also provides a proprietary service called VaultMatch (http://www.vaultreports.com/links/vaultmatch), a free online recruiting tool that matches young, professional job seekers with corporate employers and headhunters. Augmenting VaultMatch is Vault's Employee Message Boards (http://www.vaultreports.com/vstore/messageintro.cfm), a newly-introduced network of message boards where people can gossip about the work life at their companies. VaultReports.com was founded in 1996 by H.S. Hamadeh, Mark Oldman, and Samer Hamadeh, recent graduates of Stanford and Wharton. |
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