Why is taking credit for somebody else's work so common at HP? I'd really like to know because this is becoming ridiculous. I've been here a little over a year but I don't see myself staying much longer, considering this. What kind of managers does this place employs/promotes?
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Well that is interesting, all the posts that someone wrote thinking this was the HPE board have disappeared. Just the references to those posts remain. Someone does edit these message boards.
"YES! A lot of the HPE LAYOFFS are racist and they discriminate"
HELLO!!!
This is the message board for HPQ ..... not HPE. If you will remember, HP became 2 separate companies several years ago. Go over to the HPE message board and post your nonsense over there.
When I started on one of the Compaq Server teams, another person was hired right after me and he seemed to have very little technical knowledge about electronics or computers. Apparently, this guy was hired because he married the daughter of one of the senior executives. I don’t think this guy did any actual work and he would come into the lab and ask us what we working on and he would write up a report and read the report in our weekly meeting like he was doing the work. After that, nobody would give him status or we would give him bogus information. BTW, that status taker is still working at HPE and he probably still has no understanding of computers.
The CPQ method? Yep. It's not HP. That is what CPQ brought to HP.
HP is very heavily driven by internal politics cliques. If you’re in the “club”, then you’re golden. Typically these are long timers who have been kissing up to management for many years. If you’re new or even there for under 5 years, you are not in the “club” and will be first on the layoff list.
When I joined HP I was told by one of these old timers that I would be considered as a newbie for at least 5 years and
not to expect getting much credit or bonuses for any of my work in the near term. I left HP after 2 years and now work somewhere where I’m highly respected and valued far more than I ever had or could have at HP.
HP is a toxic place. Find a better company to work at.
I’ve found that there’s a big divide between more tenured employees and less tenured/younger. Many of my older coworkers have worked for hp for at least as long as I could walk. They don’t know how to save a pdf file, but they’re well versed in internal muck. They either don’t understand the value fresher employees provide, or are afraid to recognize it and give credit for it.
HP has become a highly toxic place due to its peer review process. Incompetent managers and employees have each others back through the review process, forcing others out who are not in the club, and these are the same people who take credit for the work that other people do.
But that incompetence is showing through revenue shrinkage. For years HP added to its debt to hide this issue, but it no longer works now that interest rates are rising.