[ShamelessC]

With regard to your second point, that seems to be entirely the fault of Dell - no? If they wanted to encourage junior engineers with promotions, maybe they should, you know, promote them? Rather than inventing silly games and trapping them in loops.

I understand your first point however. Can’t imagine how interns and early engineers are supposed to learn without having a highly available set of mentors to learn from.

[yoshicoder]

I totally agree with what you are saying, My point was that this policy just seems to be another one of those policies to get them to not be promoted. More hoops you may call it

[ShamelessC]

Ah indeed, seems we are in agreement.