Hewlett-Packard Reviews in Dublin, Ireland Area

Pros

Multinational company located everywhere in the world, it operates in different sector. Possibilities to change sector even if remaining in the same company. Social activities organized monthly.

Cons

Salary, bonus and benefits offered are lower than that offered by competitors. For many sector is a company where starts to work and acquire experience.

Advice to Senior Management

Valorize employees for the hard job done offering adeguate benefits and bonuses. Offers more possibilities to develop career within the company

Pros

To have a job. Learn new things. Multi cultural environment.

Cons

Sick days not paid.
Bad salary. (Very Bad!)
No good conditions to work. No peace.
No career perspectives.
People there, leadership, take off your motivation and enthusiasm to work.
The way they choose to show some recognition for your work is a day off (rare!!!) and some bonus (little money and hard to get it!)
Don't let you do your job well done. They want everything fast... with not too much quality. Just enough.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize more who work for you. Let the people work serious, with quality, not just quick. The pressure there is terrible. We feel sad to go to work. People should be happy to go to work. Prize the people and your company will change for better or people will go. The people go away... a lot... Less than 30% stay in the company for more than one year. The people who stay is because the economic crisis, not for own wish. The way you use with employees psychcological hurts them. Think about that. Thank you.

Pros

Great employee Discount, management is very flexible in terms of granting time off when needed, the overall culture is fun, non-commission environment allows employees to work together and hand off sales to more qualified employees in certain areas. This makes a better experience for both customers and employees.

Cons

Getting more than 15-18 hours a week in my department was rare since media sales don't bring in much revenue, although sales are non-commissioned management still acts as if they are (trying to make sales a competition among departments), some customers are horrible to deal with, and my department took forever to close since it was comprised of movies, cds, mp3s, and video games.

Advice to Senior Management

Better communication and commitment to help employees grow as management did not show much interest on helping me at the time I needed it. It felt more of people being promoted for kissing butt more than the actual value and skill of the individual whom often were left out and discourage to do better as they did not feel appreciated for their hard work.

Pros

Excellent employee respect, work life balance and flexibility

Cons

No great oppertunities for career progression

Advice to Senior Management

NA

Pros

felxible working hours - allowed to work from home
training is provided and ability to expenses books
mobile phone is a big bonus

Cons

no pay rises
CEO thinks of himself and no one else. he will ruin it the same way he has with NCR

Advice to Senior Management

if you focus on employees below director level you may see a rise in productivity which could ultimately increse share price.

why anyone needs to pay themselves $60 million over 2 years is beyond me

Pros

Flexibility, respect i am given by my boss, the autonomy to manage and set goals for my people, work life balance is tough at the minute but i own it and am supported. Great colleagues and willingness from people to do the right thing

Cons

Very top down approach, people are more worried about how things look than the substance of what they do.
Some of the "old" spirit of the HP way is gone - but we live in a new world today.

Advice to Senior Management

need to get back to some of the core values of the organisation - don't spin things if they are bad its better to give it straight - people can take it!

Pros

HP ES have the size and the hardware backing, and now the consulting/service/out-sourcing background with EDS acquisition, to compete for every government / corporation project available.

Cons

HP ES have announced a €25M contract win with Rail Procurement Agency in Ireland, the cost of which will be met by Irish tax payers and eventually Irish commuters. Yet HP will be off-shoring the server hosting to Phillipines and development work to Egypt. So, not only are Irish tax-payers suffering a drastic recession and paying for the follies of a fat lazy government who allowed the banks dictate economic policy and made us pay to keep them afloat... now we are paying for jobs to be exported to 3rd world countries too. Contract should have gone to an Irish indigenous company instead of HP who will not return value to the local economy. Cant blame HP for making a buck out of this, but it's sickening all the same. Still, not as sickening as receiving emails as an EDS employee, congratulating my colleagues in British MoD contracts supporting the "war" in Iraq...
Other than this off/best/next shoring nonsense, HP ES have shown little regard to my colleagues in US who have taken 5/10% pay cuts or been shown the door. Just glad I live in EU where the worker still has the right to refuse a pay cut, or I'm sure that fat wanker Hurd would be gorging his bonus payments with chunks of our pay again. Tosser.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop this mealy mouthed cost cutting, everything from stationery to canteen subsidies are being slashed in order to keep the share-holder happy and prop up the bonus payments at executive level, it's getting ridiculous now, with having to buy your own envelopes for Gods sake.. stop cutting staff and start building a team spirit with the dregs that are still left clinging on to their jobs. Stop sending out nonsense emails about HP being voted "most ethical company" while off-shoring jobs and handing out pay cuts or redundancies. Put some decent training courses together on Security / Database mining and 3Com technologies to allow your current staff to grow and move upwards or sideways at least. Lastly, justify your binuses not with current profit but with longer term goals for the company and its main asset. It's people.

Pros

As mentioned already by many other commentators the only reason left to work for HP is the flexibility like telecommuting, flexible working hours etc. which result in a better work-life balance and more time at disposal of the employees, time that is normally used to look for another job, do another job or used to upskill etc. used anyway to try to minimize the impact that a potential but likely layoff could have on their lives. Also if you work for HP you are certain that you will get the payslip at the end of the month...of course until your replacement in a cheaper location is found and you are then automatically shown the door.
In my experience the lower level management despite having their hands tied is generally helpful and understanding and line managers do their best to help.

Cons

The only strategy that the HP senior management appears to have could be described in one sentence "Cut cost at all costs" The members of the senior management team are giving themselves huge bonuses and rewards while cutting everyone else. These people have no respect or consideration for the generic HP employee or customer, they only have respect and consideration for Wall Street and the large shareholders. No social resposibility at all. If they see a opportunity to save let's say 20.000 Euros a year by offshoring 100 jobs from the western world to a low cost location they would fire 100 persons on the spot and move the jobs, they don't care about the impact in these people's lives. There is a complete disconnect between the senior management team and all the rest. They see you as a cost, a headcount to squeeze as much as possible while at the same time seeking to take away as much as possible from you an look for your repalcement in a low cost nation.

If you are working in a technical role then there is even more disrespect. For some reasons the HP management team sees the employees working in technical roles as pure garbage. You are constantly reminded that your job can easily move to India or China etc. even derided if you complain.

- There is no innovation going on
- The morale is at a all time-low.
- Your pay and benefits constantly and relentlessly eroded, most are below industry average
- Most people are stuck in dead-end jobs entangled in the HP massive bureaucracy and losing
   skills day after day
- No possibility for advancement or promotion. There are various growth and advancement
   programs advertised internally called "People promise" like HP sponsored further education,
   external training etc but they are all programs put there just as an AD.Try to enroll in one of them
   and you will soon find that the team has no budget left for that. Nobody know anyone who was
   successful on having one of these programs entrance accepted, despite many trying.
- No training (the rule is: we have to support a new product, read the manual, do the video training
   then you are considered an expert, of course with no hands on, no help and you are asked
   to give outstanding support on the product, if you fail and the customer complains about bad
   support you could easily be shown the door
- No budget even for stationery, you will find no pens, no blank DVDs, no paper...buy your own
- Of course no pay raises, only pay custs, no bonuses, no share options...hey all that is reserved
   for the big snowflakes on top

If you like all that, HP is your ideal place

Advice to Senior Management

Your goal is to enrich yourselves with massive amount of money by exploiting everyone else.
You are doing a great job at that, and at destroying a once great company.

Pros

Flexibility to work from home and paycheck still comes at the end of the month

Cons

The environment is toxic and the new bad culture inspired by the senior management team has deteriorated things a lot for employees and customers as well over the last few years. The senior management team is only interested in one thing: short term profit to make up the numbers for the next quarter and in turn increase their multimilion bonuses at the expense of the lower ranking employees. This is of course not driven by innovation but cost cutting , outsourcing, offshoring at full gas. I wouldn't say that the morale is rock bottom but taht is underground at this stage
There seems to be two entities in HP, the "senior management" and its immediate circle and the "rest". The senior maanagement team sees the "rest" as disgusting enemies to screw up as much as possible until they are forced to leave (possibly with no redundancy package) so that they can find a cheaper or outsourced replamcement in a third world country with no labor laws and increase year after year their massive bonuses.The consideration and respect for employees and customers is virtually zero. Everyone I know in HP, rather than being focused on the customers and doing the job as good as possible to server a compnay they should like to work for, is focused on refining a plan B to jump ship as soon as a opportunity comes or if the layoff comes before. There is one saying in general inside: there are two types of HP employees, the one who has been made redundant and the one who's about to be made redundant. It's all said

Advice to Senior Management

They should leave but they will not leave until the cow if fully milked

Pros

HP provides good employment benefits for full time employees. There is very little pressure in the ASM role. you are left alone to make the role your own, working within a structured service delivery process. All the training & development you can handle is provided, but nothing directly related to doing the role of ASM, other training tends to be low cost web based (CBT). Small close-knit group to work for, but theres no sense of being part of a team, which is quite unfortunate.

Cons

Little or no salary increases year on year, Benefits are being eroded year on year. Very poor implementation of FPR (performance reviews), disinterested managment.

Advice to Senior Management

Meet more to discuss local morale.