Who gave you the news?
What was your experience like?
When did it happen?
Where did it happen?
Why did it happen?
How much notice did you get?
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Your manager will tell you on a Monday morning. At this point it’s too late for your manager to fight for you.
When I was working at HPE, I noticed that some Indian developers tried to add a new feature and broke my code. I let them founder with it until my boss asked me to step in and fix it. This happened several times so that’s when I decided to take the early retirement package because I knew that offshoring and WFR’s were coming. HPE cut salaries and jobs so that led to a huge brain drain. Most of my former coworkers got huge salary increases when they left HPE. I also got a huge increase. For the first time in my life, I feel that my work is valued and I’m being compensated for it.
I was under Print, got laid off in Oct 2023. 2/3 of my team gone, including me and another team member really doing work. You will notice your work been slowly outsourced to India. The zoom call was scheduled by director on Monday morning. To the people here still at HP, if you team works closely with the Indian team, and you know that they can do your job without you. You should be alerted.
Someone said it. But generally it happens on a Monday. You’ll get a random 1x1 meeting on the calendar where the basically read a script. The. You’ll have until the next week and you’re done. They basically ambush you by design.
I went through it but literally found another position Tuesday with an offer Wednesday. I just lucked into a manager that knew my capabilities and had an opening.
These days it’s never performance. It’s higher salaries. It definitely didn’t seem that way prior to this company splitting.
After that I vowed to be more prepared and took career steps to better protect myself since I work remotely.
"You are not going to get many responses because not that many people get laid off from HP."
The village id--t opens his mouth again (and lies as usual). Look at all the downvotes he got as always.
Back to the layoffs question, last September was a bloodbath at both PC and Print. As others have mentioned here, those with higher salaries are the first to be let go regardless of how much they contribute. HP is all about bean counting right now and funneling the profits to shareholders and the executives. Your manager breaks the news and often tries to blame you for poor performance or bad behavior to justify letting you go. They are good as gaslighting so don't fall for it and just move on.
Leave this company to save your sanity, and ignore the village id--t who keeps cheerleading HP and upvotes himself due to being insecure and childish.
I've always heard mgmt knows on Friday and tells person on Monday. 2 weeks is usual...unless it is a whole site. However I do know of a couple people that it wasn't done until after the holidays. Also have seen people come back as a contractor in a different job role.
I got laid off from HP in Sept. 2023.
Your manager will give you the news. I was pretty surprised because I was the only one on my team actually doing any work. I know this because we had team meetings for status updates twice a week.
My experience? Bad obviously, felt betrayed. Backstabbed by my director.
The call was on Monday at 10AM.
No one is going to give you the real reason why you're getting let go. They will always blame it on reorganization and budget reallocation. However, typically, if you're laid off, it's because they believe they can hand off your responsibilities to multiple people on your team and you're salary is higher than everyone else. HR is a hawk because they will find one tiny little thing on your past performance reviews and will use that as justification.
Where it happened was that it was on a Zoom call, literally as soon as I was getting ready to go into the office.
I got a two weeks notice. Thankfully even before my last day, I had interviewed with my current employer. I'm making 65.9% more (I did the math) now than I did at HP. I'm glad HP laid me off.
I enjoyed working with my friends at HP but I'm not glad I worked for HP.
HP is doomed.
You are not going to get many responses because not that many people get laid off from HP.