For anyone heading out of HPE or already gone, what pushed you to leave? Was it low pay, shaky job security, benefits, or something else? There are a lot of different frustrations building up, it'd be nice to know which one is in the lead.
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@ae 110% the products are brought to market too fast. The storage products get renamed every 10 months. No one can learn any of the products fast enough. We don't make anything we just buy a company and rebrand it, we can barely even do the rebranding right. VME is atrocious at best.
@1q2 After my AM Teams calls, I get seriously blasted and do dabs all afternoon. Thank you HPE!
@1mb People at the office wasting time on smoke breaks? Forget that- smoke all day - work from home - 2026 style. Love HPE!
I will never leave HPE as long as I can. Wrap up tight ones all day work from home!
I left HPE a couple years ago. Working at HP and HPE had turned me into Wally (from the Dilbert comic strip). I couldn’t get a decent raise or promotion so I did my job and coasted. I knew a layoff and salary reduction was just around the corner so I took a package and left.
I reinvented myself and worked in a totally different type of tech job that I really enjoyed but wasn’t paid very well. Finally, an aerospace company contacted me and offered me a huge salary increase and I’ve been with them for several years now and I have doubled my HPE salary.
The moral of the story: Don’t be like me and become Wally. Reinvent yourself, acquire new skills, and find something else. It will take time but the search is worth it.
HPE still has some really solid, talented people who genuinely care and know their stuff. That's honestly the only thing keeping parts of the company afloat right now.
The bigger issue is how many leadership roles seem to be filled more for checking DEI boxes than for actual qualifications or technical depth. I've seen it happen way too often, women being moved into senior positions primarily because they help meet Antonio's diversity targets, even when the technical experience or proven track record isn't there.
Antonio doesn't seem like a bad person at all, but he's too hands off on this stuff. Letting these imbalances go unchecked is quietly doing real damage to the company over time.
I was laid off at HPE in 2020. I don’t know too many people who quit voluntarily except for really two reasons: they know they’re not growing as an individual or the company is being political and putting barriers again them that make no sense.
Frankly, most people who stay only do it for the financial stability. HPE pays decently and has good benefits. (Notice how I say “decently” and “good”) Some people get complacent and go with the floor.
Having worked for both HPE and HPi, I would say that HPE is in a better state than the latter. I don’t think HPE will ever be like Google, AWS, or even identify itself as a mover in the industry. The company is simply a reseller of hardware. I can’t pinpoint a specific strategy that makes HPE unique.
Like many giant tech companies: it’s a company with some very intelligent and enjoyable people but their upper management makes some questionable decisions.
@yb the way they pushed Surest in the benefit integration meetings, I definitely thought those HR reps were getting a kickback for each plan member.
@xj HPE HDP uses a different dr-g company and I just moved my meds and…a little cheaper in total. But premium is higher.
They way they were pushing surest really turned me off to it.
@fk my blood pressure Nd cholesterol medications were $0 no cost under Juniper’s HDHP medical and now with Surest PPO (non HDHP) I have to pay for m prescriptions.
@pt forgot about that too
Moved on just after bonus. Jnpr was nice in a way. I believe jnpr was sold just so that the upper mgmt made their money. Demoting employees and cutting their pay after takeover is just showing what you really think about the employees.
@mn don’t forget no raises for us and most of us bonus targets were cut!
glad to have moved on. hpe way too woke and too weak to do the right thing.
@m3 juniper had an ESPP with a minimum of 15% and over the 2 year cycle I was buying at $18 when market price was $35. So there is that. My benefits package costs me 10% more with less coverage, then my position was moved down one spot and now I am supposed to train the Aruba people. Thankfully I have an offer from a competitor.
@fk What is the difference between the salary and benefits you were getting at juniper compared to what HPE is offering you now? I thought HPE offered competitive benefits and salaries. Doesn't sound like that's the case.
@fk who would have thought HPE would not give the same JNPR benefits ? Everyone perhaps ?
Can't wait to get out of here someday soon hope. Too many messes with Juniper. Too many show off with H belts and fancy shoes.
@jk That's a great analysis. HP/HPE ceased to be innovative when they split off from the Test and Measurement group which was the genesis of the company. Fortunately I kept my Agilent shares after the split and they along with one of their spin-offs, Keysight have been going gang busters ever since.
The entire C-Suite along with the BOD needs to be replaced. The place can't get any worse.
The issue was a complete lack of humanity. My team was acquired by HPE - we had a great sense of working together, helping each other, and doing what was right for the customer prior to this purchase. The first year after HPE acquired us, the team went above and beyond, making sure the integration was successful, integrating with engineers from what was the original Digital team. We kept all customers happy, and doubled our new divisions revenue. It was an amazing effort. I was expecting the team would be valued and rewarded for all of that outstanding effort.
Instead, I was asked to create a 3 year plan that would reduce the engineering team.
The bean counters run this company - there is no sense of what it takes to create innovative products, happy engineers and customers. Maybe that's how it has to be with a huge company - but it seems like a going out of business plan to me.
It looks to me like Nvidia is striking a balance between creating an effective, productive engineering environment and company profit.
juniper employee who wants out as a result of the pay and benefit cut. Nothing is what we were told it would be. Benefits and pay are not equal or even close to it.
Still here, but keeping my options open. Pay is good, but management is intentionally starving divisions, and still expecting more and more from employees. Management seems to have conflicting vision or no vision at all. Overall, it feels like this place is a confederacy of dunces.
Lack of growth opportunities as well as no value in the day to day.
Pay wasn't bad but it was really things like; shaky job security, an ever expanding list of sub-par products expected to instantly develop expert knowledge of, glacially slow product improvements, absolutely terrible field service/support, very little opportunity for professional growth, sales reps who can't close, and 7 different managers in my last 4 years -- those are the things that made me decide to throw in the towel.