HP/HPE has got to be the worst company I've ever worked for. I had to code solutions that all of the offshore saviors couldn't deliver on to save their lives! I understand the "why" (money) of outsourcing but I truly believe companies that outsource their highly technical jobs are doomed. Look at HPE, every since EDS acquisition they have been dying! As far as layoffs go, Americans are strong, you guys will be good. Update the resumes and get on with a company that will appreciate good people!
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In my two years at HP, I went through at least 5 reorganizations, each of which were done to repair the damage of the last reorg. I have never seen so many people working so frantically to accomplish so little. Everyone was putting in 50-60 hour weeks and there was nothing to show for it. Middle managers intentionally stalled processes so they'd have the ability to "identify" and "fix" the issues and then take credit for it. Direct managers were powerless to do anything and simply went through the fake motions of managing.
The saddest part was that even though everyone know how bad things were, enough people played cheerleader that there was an air of forced fake optimism my entire two years. The VP spent more of his time telling everyone how good they were and how important their work was than he did trying to fix anything.
The limited teleworking was the only thing I had to look forward to and after a year even that was taken away. I was actually happy the day I was WFRed. Not just relieved, but actually smiling as I found out. I had been actively looking for work anyway and a new job came right away. I am still at the new company and have been happy for 3 years.
HP is a trap in every sense of the word. I regret the day I accepted a job at HP and the 2 years I work there. The organization I used to work for is nonexistent now and I can literally count the number of people in the org who still work for HP on a single hand. Such a sad and sick place...
worst place i ever worked for but they paid me well and I held down two part time jobs while working there and it didn't impact my performance because nothing was expected. I could finish my work in less than 10 hours per week... I would ask for more work and they would refer me to help someone else who had little to do... My manager(s), I went through several, had no idea what they were doing. hpe seems full of inherited players on mixed up confused teams. there seems to be a general lack of organization to the place. i was part of an acquisition and held 5 different positions in the company . none did i apply for. i was just dropped into a team and told this is your new manager. then others would come and go ... like being a toy in a claw machine i suppose. anyway, i got wfr'd some time ago and have not missed it one bit. i now have an executive role in a global telecom that is experiencing growth and expansion. i have no respect for hpe's management style or their executives. 15 years and they never figured out how to do anything because in that 15 years there were so many failures... it's been dying on the vine for a very long time. time to bury it once and for all.
I had the same experience with the "offshore saviors" when I worked there, they are useless!
You know I left Hp in 2011 before the split
Best move I ever made. My old manager and colleagues wouldn’t talk to me afterwards like I was a traitor. Now when they get hit one by one they reach out.
I stayed a stockholder and have benefited from it. The stockholders make out but the employees do not. Many employees live in that hpe bubble so when they are hit they don’t have a handle on what everyone else is doing so they flounder, some do make it but so many do not
Don’t let that happen to you
It's only going to get worse... Bail out ASAP if at all possible!
They do the same thing with replacing hard-working and competent geezers with your new-college-grads who barely show up at work. Now, I understand that some geezers are lazy and deserve to be laid off, and some youngsters are competent. Not trying to paint with too broad of a brush here...
But I have seen totally competent and hard-working geezers replaced by near-totally-worthless youngsters... Same as the off-shored folks, they save HPE money, for Meg's bonus! And the lower management gives not one single hoot that the workload is no longer pulled, when productive geezer has been replaced by worthless new-grads... Meg has been obeyed, costs have been cut, and that is ALL that matters!
10% will be cut every quarter
Find another job.
Well said