Camaraderie

EMC’s culture combines empowerment, innovation, execution, and caring about the customer and fellow employees. We have built a culture of teamwork and trust, creating a sense of camaraderie from a departmental to a company-wide level.

We bring new employees into the EMC family and have fun along the way with a wide variety of programs:

• All new employees are enrolled in a "Compass" program, where they learn about the company, its values, and its history, and they have an opportunity to meet other new hires.
• Each new college hire is assigned an "alum chum" to help them navigate the company and make an immediate friend.
• Each new sales hire spends a full week learning from company executives and experiencing bonding programs like the ritual of "fire-walking."

At the departmental and functional level, each organization has its own rituals. Organizational groups have been known to:

Organizational groups

• Form softball and soccer leagues that play on one of the company’s fields.
• Have tournaments on one of the many company-provided game tables or basketball hoops.
• Have weekly "coffee and communication" or "lunch and learn" sessions, where socializing is as important as the business topic.
• Build fun team-building activities into every "all-hands" communication forum.
• Regularly celebrate birthdays, employee anniversaries, births, and other important events.