If you want to work for an innovative company that pushes the envelope, look elsewhere.
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Having left HP as one of your suppliers is probably the best thing I've ever done. Pay is practically doubled and 401k match is higher.
I still know a few legacy HP and Compaq people at HP but the numbers are quickly decreasing. I grew up near the Compaq campus and still drive passed their frequently to get to my parents place. I'm always mesmerized from how many buildings they had and think to myself, "It's hard to believe that there used to so much technological activity here."
I remember a lot of those toxic HP people went in the 2008-2010 layoffs. They hated non-HP employees with a passion. Treated CW's like dirt and then got the ax themselves. They then had to grovel and come back as CW's because HP put in place a ban on ever hiring them ever again.
Don't ever tell me the "old" HP employees were "good".
True, and the last of the great HP people were pushed out in the last rounds of layoffs while brown nosers and toxic people surived. These layoff survirors are not interested in innovation but in collecting a paycheck, and have no interpersonal or social skills like the old HP workers.
True, those glory days were long gone donkey years back. See the desperate pitch to shareholders by keep increasing dividend and share buy backs, one can tell how desperate they are given they are in a sunset and commoditize industries (print and pc respectively)