I work for HPE in the UK where, quite frankly the business is in total disarray. The management have no clue in how to galvanize, focus or drive for results -they are more interested in saving their own backsides with review after review of numbers delivery without ever speaking to a customer.
From Palo Alto we get acquisition after acquisition foisted upon us having paid way over the odds for mediocre assets and people which the management kill all sense of what made them reasonably successful in the first place. Nice job!
There is a witch hunt mentality where certain people, normally good solid performers are released at the whim of a mediocre middle line manager deciding they don’t like the look of their face or need someone to blame for (their) poor unit performance. The cry is “do more with less” – the reality is do more with less until we WFR you as part of the next headcount-haircut coming to a location near you.
HPE are the laughing stock of the enterprise/SMB IT industry and our partners now generally neither trust – not respect us - and I for one have started looking for a job with a stable, energised business who actually cares about its people and realise that people drive success - not some idiot who can hardly drive a spreadsheet beating the cr*p out of us because we could not close a deal three months before the customer said an order will be placed.
Q4 is already looking like a disaster and with WFRs of 20% being rumoured I no longer care about the company and am spending more time on job seeking than doing my job.
RIP HPE and all those so called "managers" who will likely never get another job because their incompetence will be easily found out in a half descent interview that they were the cause, not a casualty of their own ineptitude.