Hewlett-Packard Reviews in Atlanta, GA Area

Pros

Strong product set. Long term employees and well regarded in the tech community. Excellent sales perks and quality employees and training .

Cons

High level executive mismanagement in recent years. I like the direction of the new CEO and the stock is a great buy. Hopefully HP will have a good turn around soon.

Advice to Senior Management

Settle on a direction and commit to more c level stability. Great product set just focus on r & d and stability.

Pros

The size and scope of the company can introduce interesting challenges in IT, but because of the global nature of the company, it seems like you have to work 24/7.

Cons

Phone culture puts you on the phone 4 hours per day.

Pros

Employee focused
Good culture and employyes are very helpful

Cons

Complex and large
Compensation needs uplifting

Advice to Senior Management

make compensation market leading

Pros

Good Ethical company. Good work from home policy

Cons

Too much change, and uncertainty. Too many managers and executives. Too much red tape and bureaucracy.

Pros

Great Work / Life Balance, Good Benefits

Cons

No prospect for Promotion, or salary increase.

Advice to Senior Management

Ready to leave at the first opportunity

Pros

Great technology; HP is bar none the leader in technology including hardware and software.

Cons

The company sells in silos and is a very BU centric organization. It makes it very difficult to position and sell solutions. The greatest area for growth is software and services yet HP is laser focused on driving hardware with declining margins over software!

Pros

flexible work locations
get vacation when you ask for it.

Cons

You are a number, and considered an expense.
20, 25, or 30 years of IT experience...no matter....will just call you and let you go....talent out the window.
The EDSers who got bought were the best talent and they all make alot less now after pay reductions.

Advice to Senior Management

Managers make no money for the company. It is the workers that do the work that allows HP to bill clients. Thousands of Brillant people are perplexed as to why HP has let so much fantastic talent go. 1000's of Brillant IT techies are incredibly smarter than 10 bean counters sitting at a table saying how to save money. It may take the company decades to recover after clients realize a lack of support and knowledge are available. When the best people see work force reductions, they leave the company before it happens to them, thus further reducing the intellect left at HP.
Stop outsourcing.

Pros

Flexible work hours, very accommodating. Great people. Ability to move to new jobs within company. Mgmt will take a chance on you and let you grow into a new role.

Cons

Salary - always some excuse for not getting a raise. Few years ago entire company took 5% pay cut. This year everyone got a raise – they got their 5% back.

Pros

Does allow work-at-home (if your job position allows), flexible time off (if your job position allows), access to cool technologies, working in very diverse/multi-national environment

Cons

No promotions, raises, reward or bonus, recognition. Work-life balance is whatever you want as long as it's work. It's not uncommon to work 60+ hour weeks. Management response is "do whatever it takes to get the job done, everything else is secondary." Lots of lay-offs and sending work off-shore, do anything they can to reduce costs (no training classes, professional development, etc. -- well, whatever you can find if it's free).

Advice to Senior Management

Read "The HP WAY" -- turn the company around.

Pros

Great people, great products, terrific work environment. Excellent training and experience.

Cons

Constant mergers and acquisitions of other technology companies. Must be agile to evolve in this environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on employee loyalty