Hewlett-Packard Reviews in Houston, TX Area

Pros

Benefits, good facility, good educated people.

Cons

Lack of growth opportunities, no appreciation of your hard work, no pay raises, bonus only if you keep your manager happy regardless.

Advice to Senior Management

be fair with all your direct reports, hiring managers needs to consult with other team members not only with immediate manager, bring your attitude down and put yourself in same shoe.

Pros

A big stable company. People are friendly and their real-state (depending on where you are) seems to be nice.

Cons

Management is way too complicated and resolve all its problem by outsourcing jobs and reducing cost instead of increasing revenue by innovation.

HP does not increase wages.

Advice to Senior Management

You have to put new young people in management which knows about current market needs.

Pros

Very broad product offering some are even best in class.

Cons

Upper management paid disportionately to regular white or blue collar employee, especially the C-suite.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop off-shoring support!

Pros

Telecommuting is commonly accepted. Good health care benefits. Probably still a good place to hire on from the outside. But do not expect to advance in your career.

Cons

HP used to be a wonderful place to work. People were valued. Priority now is on cutting costs, cutting benefits, cutting staff while increasing workload. No raises for 6 years now even for the top performers like myself.

Advice to Senior Management

When the economy finally improves, top people will flee in droves.

Pros

Work-life balance
Good people
Proximity
Some products
Good facilities
Community involvement
Green attitude
Help the environment
Company business standards
Ethics

Cons

Compensation
Recognition
Benefits
Lack of growth
Bureaucracy
Culture
Passion is gone
Lack of innovation
Loyalty to employees is gone
Upper Management - Selfish approach

Advice to Senior Management

Take care of your talented people. Get your company soul back and focus in innovation and quality. Reduce the bureaucracy created by the selfish upper management style

Pros

Good benefits, endless possibility for growth

Cons

Layoff scare is constant, , raises are infrequent

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

Most Flexible Place to work. I've passed up other "dream" jobs to stay here. The Internal audit department is bigger then entire consulting firm I used to work for... and more friendly and professional. Everyone really makes a great effort to promote knowledge and career advancement. It is openly discussed the expectation for employees to gain experience so that they can roll into other jobs within HP.

Cons

HP is a huge company and guidance can come in from all directions. I have a great manager so this isn't an issue. But for some it can become overwhelming very quickly

Pros

good benefits, great direct manager, challenging job, most co-workers are a pleasure to work with.

Cons

upper management does not care about employees, layoffs, outsourcing,and off-shoring work is hard on morale and is demotivating.

Advice to Senior Management

be honest. actually do something with the VOW surveys, quit buying so many companies and invest in the current employees.

Pros

Good learning experience. Matrix environment.

Cons

No compensation for good work. Employees all complain about being under-appreciated. Big company mentality.

Advice to Senior Management

Remember the little folks. They are the workhorse behind the company.

Pros

HP's great with flexibility and ability to work from home. To that end, HP also gets more hours out of their employees as we work from home and they save on overhead costs. Although we would all enjoy more competitive pay, the flexibility here is great.

Cons

Competitive pay for this area

Advice to Senior Management

Share the wealth.