Thread regarding Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) layoffs

I was WFR'd approximately 2 weeks ago. Severance is 60 days pay (on target incentive) and at the end of 60 days you have to sign a form that basically makes it impossible for HPE to ever hire you back again. For signing the form and returning it within 5 days, you receive approximately one months pay.

Benefits? Gone immediately. Cobra is your only option if you want to pay a ton for benefits and not risk it.

Unused vacation pay? You just forfeited it according to the WFR guidelines.

You have 60 days to be rehired by HPE. Except that for the last week or so, there are no open job requisitions available. Meaning you must wait until after November 1st when FY17 starts and hope that some jobs start opening up. Competition for those jobs will likely be fierce as people seek to grab the fastest, easiest way to re-employment. Then they can sit and worry about the next round of WFR's, which are inevitable. Best option is to probably get rehired and then immediately start looking for another job. HPE's job cuts make no sense, unless the sense is only that they are reducing cost.

severance package is horrible

Going to CSC. My benefits are going up 55%. Getting us "in line" with CSC benefits package. Dusting off my resume now. We can't cut anymore, as our techs are burned out.

I am hopeful for CSC, has to be better than evil HP..,,Not even. It may be worse....

I heard Monday was most likely it for layoffs before newco. They need a stable number in the new fiscal year to get everyone situated. Also heard that managers are getting cut (finally) since they don't need as many in newco. I am hopeful for CSC, has to be better than evil HP...

Not all is well for the NewCo guys, we appear to have a fend off obvious cuts once the NewCo is up and running, not to mention the contract limitations (no-compete clauses CSC has with itself). And if that goes well... we are noticing insane benefit package hits. Can't imagine what other surprises are in store.

Very strange and sad strategy. Most saw HPI and HPE as great offsets in a portfolio, as one was down one was up. The reason for the separation was "gives leadership more focus" you mean to tell me we pay these guys millions $ and they can't run different businesses at the same time. For MicroTrend I thought it funny that Meg said that the SW business would get 20% higher margins - the stock analyst said that's 2000 basis points - that's $750M a year in margin you are giving up. So they all lie, to tell a .story. HPE execs were too busy looking at the next 5 years and how they would retire with a bundle rather than to find young leaders who would have to stay.

Does anyone know what the redundancy package in the UK is like?

It is the standard severance package

Check the portal

did HPE give any decent severance package?

Half of Labs cut, most of Seattle Office is at 10% capacity from 150 when I joined 2 years ago. At least the majority of us weren't shocked, and a severance is what kept people on for so long awaiting the be axed...

Down past the marrow. Starting to lop off parts..

Title of this thread is "New surprise layoffs today".

Surprise?

If you are taking the time to read this blog, then you are sharp enough to know that NO ONE and I mean NO ONE is safe from HPE layoffs. You can ask any of the 55,000+ laid off over the last 3 years about it. Top 5% performance rated folks...gone. Key client roles...gone. Supposedly Mission Critical technical roles which no one else can do...gone. Sales related jobs which drive the desired growth...gone. Cache roles in premium organizations such as HP Labs and Cloud...gone. Mid-level management...gone. I could go on for an hour on the type roles HP/HPE has laid off and the number of times folks say it was a "surprise" and that "they could not imagine it being them". The fat is gone at HPE...has been for a couple years...so the cuts are now muscle and bone.

So you have been thus notified. ANYONE can be laid off, so it should NOT be a surprise to ANYONE.

50% of the HPE Linux team.

Definitely seems like teleworkers were the first to go. We were forced to become teleworkers so that HP could save money and close facilities. Now they decided being a teleworker is bad. Wish they had decided that earlier!

Server engineering and test got hit - Houston, Palo Alto and MA

20% across my team and my lab. I unfortunately didn't duck in time and got the axe. A number of us in MA whose groups were based in CO/CA were let go. Most of us were telecommuters until recently and they pulled us on-site. 6 months later most of us are gone as they're moving to geographically located teams. Strange that a company that sells distributed networking solutions can't figure out how to have a distributed workforce.

Some of the folks who were let go were really talented lead engineers. I'm glad I won't be customer facing at HPE over the next year or two.

SMB sales field reps WFR'd also

I don't think there will be more WFR next Monday. Yesterday was the last day to lay off people in FY16 given the 2 week notice period.

Correction. Vancouver Stackato team NOT wiped out. That site hardly touched.

Did the top level survive or was it across the board

Rampage in HLinux teams and Openstack teams too

There are no "safe sites." 30% overall has been the goal for this pass. This AFTER recent selloff, NewCo, etc. Get small enough to get bought, perhaps?

Been hearing 20-30% for weeks. This is the third Monday in a row where there is actual action. Suspect there will be more next Monday too.

Stackato team. Seattle and Vancouver offices were almost completely wiped out.

Were any of the Storage layoffs in Fremont?

One of the OpenStack teams got laid off according to this Tweet: https://twitter.com/vmbrasseur/status/788052309225902080

Storage -Solutions Engineering just lost 2 people. Idk about the other groups around us...yet.

Can someone give details? Which groups?

Someone said 15%, 20% sounds too high

Not a surprise to some. ~ 20% of CDI