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Hewlett-Packard – “Go back to the HP way of William Hewlett and David Packard or face talent emigration to other companies”

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May 24, 2009

3.0

Details

Fairness & Respect	3.5
Employee Morale	3.0
Senior Leadership	4.0
Compensation & Benefits	2.0
Career Opportunities	2.5
Work/Life Balance	4.0
Recognition & Feedback	4.0
Communication	4.0

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Hewlett-Packard Systems Software Engineer V in Fort Collins, CO: (Current Employee)

Pros

- Opportunities to learn something new are a plenty.
- Get a very good exposure to industry trends and standards
- Flexible work hours
- Unlimited sick days (in US)
- Very responsive HR (at least in US)

Cons

- Not enough compensation for the work put in (base pay)
- Vacation benefits really bad (0 carry over to next year)
- No more 401 k matching or ESPP
- Not enough flexibility to change teams within company
- Really long and stressful work hours
- IT support within the company not very good.

Advice to Senior Management

- Salary structure could be improved , especially for the base pay
- scrapped benefits ( like vacation carry over, ESPP, 401k matching ) should be re-instated asap

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