Hewlett-Packard Reviews

Pros

Gives flexibility to employees to work from home.
Trust and respect
Opportunities to job rotate within and outside countries
Mentoring and training available

Cons

Process are too many and require many files managemetn
too many old systems and upgrades and migration are taking too long

Pros

Work-life balance, nice colleagues, freedom

Cons

Low pay and declining benefits

Advice to Senior Management

Value your people from all levels

Pros

* new job opportunities always come up
* expected benefits (health, dental, 401k, employee stock purchase etc...)
* decent amount of time off
* some very good managers
* open door management policy

Cons

* can be difficult to move up the ladder
* upper management constantly moving around and difficult to keep track of "who's who"
* negotiate pay upfront, getting a raise can be difficult

Advice to Senior Management

streamline processes

Pros

Access to some interesting products
HP name opens doors
Opportunity to travel and gain Int'l experience
Many intelligent and nice people within the company
Some Sr Management actually know how to manage

Cons

Outside of the CA offices, pay is a bit lower than the norm
Constant reorg'ing has taken its toll on employees
Newer management are learning as they go
Working at HP has become known as a short-term career move vs a long-term

Advice to Senior Management

Spend more time trying to keep the current excellent employees would mean less time wasted constantly trying to recruit new ones all the time.

Pros

Lot of history
good work ethics
Knowledgeable management

Cons

Focused in too many product areas

Pros

work life balance
easy to take a leave

Cons

compensation, benefits and pay needs to be worked on

Advice to Senior Management

compensation, benefits and pay needs to be worked on

Pros

my boss was great
professional and talented employees

Cons

executive management appears disconnected from the rest of the company

Pros

Good projects
Nice managers
Flexible timings at work

Cons

Should have a good road map for future

Advice to Senior Management

Keep going

Pros

Work life balance, good learning, experience includes working with international colleagues, exposure to different cultures. Challenging assignments and projects. Good benefits, training, internal movement horizontally. Rich history, brandname and strong resilient background of the company.

Cons

Career growth opportunities are limited. Some teams have internal politics. Has a culture of over dependence on manager only appraisal, without taking in to account other other types of feedback. Salary is not benchmarked with the best in industry.

Advice to Senior Management

Have 360 degree feedback and appraisal, reduce politics in the teams. Senior management need to be more sensitive. Company lacks clear direction in 2011.

Pros

open culture, Management by Walking Around, Great work life balance

Cons

career path growth plans need to focus

Advice to Senior Management

focus on the experieced employees and try to retain them