Hewlett-Packard Reviews in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Area

Pros

Decent stable place to work. Hours are not extremely taxing.

Cons

Past management. I hope Whitman will change things

Advice to Senior Management

Meg, you go girl!

Pros

Virtual office / home office is encouraged, work / life balance, decent benefits compared to other top tier companies (which does not say much about HP's peer set - because HP's benefits have gotten worse every year over the past few years).

Cons

As with anything, without a consistent management and leadership team, it's difficult to really understand the company I work for.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep a management team longer than one year.

Pros

this is where you put in your dues.

Cons

the good ole boy network still has to much a hold on the company

Advice to Senior Management

keep your good people. Too many of them have been shown the door HP has dumbsized itself.

Pros

Good Company to work for, however not more than 3 yrs

Cons

Slow career development, Poor Salaries

Advice to Senior Management

inorder to keep talent , pay based on market wages

Pros

Flexible work conditions.
Span of career opportunities.
The people.

Cons

Little vacation time.
Bad recent history (last 2-5 years)

Advice to Senior Management

get to work

Pros

They work with me on a very flexible work scheduled

Cons

No raises in 5 years. Hard to get promotions

Advice to Senior Management

Seek to find the best attributes in a person and then place them where they will flourish. Then reward them the maximum for their contributions.

Pros

Some of the people on my team are great to work with. The US and the UK ones at least.

Cons

to many to list here are some:
low pay, no raises, barely a bonus, but HP can buy other companies left and right. Management makes to much and does nothing.

Advice to Senior Management

You need to pay your employees better and hire more US resources. Help the people out in your own country and stop hiring best shore workers.

Pros

Being allowed to work from home with little travel, and zero on-call support is great. Most of the co-workers have been around for several years, and are good to work with.

Cons

Pay is typically low, our salaries have been cut a couple times. Seems like management solution to a bad quarter is to cut staff through RIFs.

Advice to Senior Management

stop moving the work offshore

Pros

Great low cost products, good support for down loading drivers.Well- know brand and great printers.I would continue to use their products.

Cons

No teamwork exist here. Maybe should should act a leader to have everyone on the same page to work together.

Advice to Senior Management

Wow, The merging of the EDS folks with the HP folks is unreal. EDS was successful for a reason, maybe HP team should learn why EDS team was so successful and do the same.

Pros

Great people. Large company which offers so many different types of career options

Cons

Highly matrixed and virtual company.