We all know more layoffs are coming after the quarterly results are announced (and they are not going to be pretty for sure,) but I was wondering what's most likely to be hit the hardest?
Somebody already announced HPE Software, but do we know if other areas will be spared or join in the carnage?
4evc, your comments my be slightly flawed. You stated "Anyone still working there is either mentally unstable, a few years from retirement, or incapable of getting hired elsewhere, so what does it matter? "
Change the "or" to "and", LOL... Good Luck to All!
4evc - that is a stupid comment. What do you mean unhireable? Maybe you are unhireable. There are still many HPE'rs with skills needed by high tech companies. One can be stagnant and complain all they want or continue to learn. HPE employees have free access to Lynda.com is one way to keep improving. The problem I noticed is that other companies expect too much out of HPE applicants only to find out that they have the same quality of people as everywhere else. The good old days of HPE employees head and shoulders above in high tech is all gone. All the years of corporate greed and employee demoralization has made HPE employees average.
P.S. I am not a troll for HR. In fact, I hate HPE. I cant wait to get out of here after 22 years of service. I've been continually looking the past 6 months.
Anyone still working there is either mentally unstable, a few years from retirement, or incapable of getting hired elsewhere, so what does it matter?
If you were worried, you would have left... except no one is hiring your skills, so be thankful you’ve lasted this long.
Hope they spread the love across the company including Aruba. Those guys enjoyed a fat bonus while the rest of the company got shafted royally.
Mark my words. The field will be contracted out and/or CE/DHS's will be made contractors. Big shake up coming.
Supply Chain will continue to get hammered. If you're a U.S. worker, be very afraid.
Sales budget is 4x+ engineering's budget. That's why HPE next is focused on sales "optimization".
If you are in any kind of quality-control function, or test hardware or test software (related to quality-checking), I would be running scared... When they have already cut ALL of the fat, and some of the muscle and bone as well, then more muscle and bone are the next to be hit. So what if the customer's quality is endangered! The top fat-cats are STILL hungry, and MUST keep on being fed! I think test and quality-type functions are next to be hit, "because they can" (without resulting in visible pain in the next, say, 2 weeks, which is about the limits to the time horizons of top management), and because they (test/quality) have been SOMEWHAT spared so far...