“The longer you stay, the harder you will be able to find a job. A lot of outsiders associate HPE employees as narcissistic, lacking of domain knowledge and enjoy office politics (thanks Meg Whitman for setting the HPE’s image).”
I find the comment about narcissism to be interesting. I self-evaluate as “salt of the earth”, humble, self-effacing... A team player. (I can say that anonymously w/o bragging, right?) I heard months after hiring on at one employer, that they barely hired me because I did not “sell myself” (brag) enough. I do NOT like to toot my own horn!
That got me laid off at HPE, in the face of the ruthless office politics that must be played to keep your job in the face of “bell curve” reviews and endless layoffs, of course. So other employers are catching on, and running askance of more recent ex-HPE folks, as we get whittled down? This should come as no surprise…
This is not just random psycho-babble… The “science” about narcissism does show that in at least some businesses or fields of endeavor, it does pay to be a narcissist. Like art… Put your nose way up in the air, and brag about how your art is SOOOO Fu-Fu-the-Snu, and it sells better! See below…
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160321081433.htm
Narcissistic artists sell more art, for more money
The pricing of artwork is often left up to the experts, but are they being swayed by unconscious signals the artists may be giving in the presentation of their work? A new study finds narcissism is positively associated with market performance of artworks, and contradicts previous research that concludes narcissism is short term and transient.