Hey HPE, you want companies to transform using your HW/SW when you are adapting to your own needs with the speed of an 8-bit sloth. Talk about speed, agility, dev/ops, analytics, AI, cloud and you are still relying heavily on Excel. Ah...and your Mktg / sales Ops execs are dragging you down. Digital transformation is a big joke.
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My experience was consistent with @PF40evw-3ody. I didn't think our team would last a year, and I was at HPE for nearly three years before I ate a bullet. I've been laid off a bunch of times, and I think my manager was very professional about it.
I've had a couple layoffs that were super sketchy, where they basically made me beg to get the contents of my desk back, and that really irritated me. It's demeaning to have to pester your former employer for your headphones and your car keys.
But HPE wasn't like that at all, it was very professional. Then again, that's probably because they have lots of practice lol.
Well yes, I think I, too, may have signed a “non-disparagement” clause with HPE… So I will say only GOOD things about HPE!
Being employed by HPE, or buying and using their rack-mount servers, is almost certainly better than being mounted on the rack, and tortured, by Torquemada, for example. Being employed by HPE is probably even better than being forced, 24-7 non-stop, to listen to Barry Manilow lyrics as sung by Bob Dylan!
I wrote a whole thing about how Meg just wanted to go to Washington but I remembered that I was forced to sign a document that said I can't disparage the company. HPE is freakin' great! Meg's leadership is right up there with...well ya' know. Long live HPE! Can't wait to see their products at Bestbuy.
They cut the more long-timers because from the bean-counter-perspective, they're just too expensive. It doesn't matter whether you're valuable to the company; you cost to many $$$. We'll just replace the long-timer with something cheaper or maybe outsource to someplace cheaper. People can just be cookie-cuttered to do what needs to be done. That's probably what's on Meg's mind. She hoping the high-cost employee base can be hyperconverged into nothingness.
I worked for a dozen companies before HP E (place judgement here). I worked from 2015 to 2017. I was WFRd but I saw it coming a year out and was prepared. What was strange was seeing engineers with 25 to 35 years experience let go before they came for me. Thats like firing Fellows. Those engineers were hardworking, pleasant, knew each product forwards and backwards. My WFR made sense. The products I was hired to work on evaporated. But cutting those guys in front of me was something else. Another warning sign was the fancy lingo the CEO used. So many imaginitive adjectives to describe the future businesd model. At most companies we created and sold products. Very clear concept. HPE is hyper converged to deliver streamlined performance etc etc. One thing good about HPE WFR is they give dignity with 2 weeks to say goodbye and use their system to look for work. Most companies escort you straight out the door and prohibit you from the premesis. They mail you your belongings.
"Then...why are you here if you're not looking back?"
I don't know about others, but I still have good feelings about the HP of old and it's people. I got wfr'd several times. I always moved on to better things. I know many others who have done the same. One thing I learned is that at HPE you have an incredible opportunity to develop skills that are valuable in other companies (which HPE doesn't seem to care about maintaining). If you are agonizing about the possibility of getting WFR'd, take advantage of what is around you and learn some new skills, you will be rewarded by your next company. Just sitting around and whining isn't gonna get you anywhere.
with HPE you may physically leave, but the mental scars remain if you were cast out as part of WFR and your livelihood is put at risk despite the commitments you made to the company..
its great to hear from people who left and picked themselves up - so I applaud the post
Glad I left this company ! I will never look back since I got a much better job.<<
Then...why are you here if you're not looking back? Just curious.
Glad I left this company !
I will never look back since I got a much better job.
I am hyper-stoked about this and now feel HPEs future is secure.
Even my dog, who is called seventeen-sigma could sell this in his sleep - if only he hadn't been run over by a MAC truck when we were travelling to the #TinWorld18 conference by a little software company called Google coming the other way
My hyper-converged infrastructure is more robust than your hyper-converged infrastructure! The gradient nullification factorial on HPE’s cybernetically ossified business integration strategy is more advantageously deployed for synergy than your supposedly out-of-the-box thinking can EVER aspire to! HPE’s seventeen-sigma manufacturing supervision (of the manufacturing actually taking place in Stanstanstanistan’s sub-sub-subcutaneously-subsucculent-subcontractors) of black-belt quality-control program managers ISO-9007-blessed Mega-Wizzard’s’s process-control processes absolutely guarantees the superior quality of HPE’s business solutions!
(Plus, yer momma wears combat boots, to boot!)
You should take out a trade mark on that before HPE marketing do!
Hyper-excited!
Readers, BEWARE that many of the nattering nabobs of negativity here may be agents of Dell, IBM, Google, Apple, etc., trying to undermine the shining virtues of HPE hyper-tech! They are merely envious of HPE’s patented, rapidly hyper-converging process of obfuscating the scalability of its pedantically articulated, membranous, hierarchically reticulated, hormesis-hardened, epandrium-resistant algorithms!
(And yes, also we have disgruntled postings of laid-off ex-HPE workers, whose epandrium-resistant algorithms fell short of HPE’s hyper-high expectations).
not just any XL! Hyper-converged the "future belongs to the fast" XL! I wonder if MSFT dropped their panties to sell the Office licences like we did to sell them Azure tin!
Lol well last Sept, we were told in a global training that Agile was new....yep in 2016...and yeah to still run reports off XL with macros is very poor form...Lol
well its not really sour grapes if its grounded in reality.
Marketing claims have to be backed up with hard delivery - digital transformation is software driven on low cost hardware in the the cloud. HPE is nowhere to be seen on any of this - its offerings now are just overpriced tin.
Few believe much from HPE these days - least so employees.
Bleak really.
If the engineers innovated, it would be easier for the marketers. Guess you don't understand how that works.
HPE is not on track for a digital transformation.. that is a typo. Rather, they are ripe for a digital examination.
Hey...it's Mr. Sour Grapes again. Love your posting style Cochise.
"What did I just read."
You just read that HPE is an empty bag of tech-babble, lacking any useful innovation or genuine brains. Marketers and program managers and "managers" have taken over, and intelligent, creative engineers have (mostly) been laid off... Because they cost too much!
"HP Invent" has been replaced by "HPE Pseudo-Tech-Babble Hyper-Ventilate".
What did I just read.