Hewlett-Packard Reviews in Montreal, QC Area

Pros

Good opportunities for cross-development. Wide portfolio of products and services. Excellent brand recognition.

Cons

Unresponsive internal bureaucracy. Conflicting goals. Massive supply chain prone to breakdown. Continuous cost-cutting of salaries and benefits. incoherent R+D strategies. Low morale. Complicated organization to navigate. Heavy internal focus on CYA.

Advice to Senior Management

Simplify. Become more partner friendly. Ask yourself when looking at a process whether it would make sense to anyone on the outside looking in.

Pros

HP is a market leader is most of it's product categories. It offers a great place to start , good support levels gives a new person a good chance succes

Cons

Cuts, cuts, cuts more focus on internal costs than people. Even if the company does well financialy it still looks at the easy way to increase profitability (people and benefits)

Advice to Senior Management

People were the greatest asset of the company and management should take time to value, foster and reward the people that not only increase revenenu but those who help the customer

Pros

HP has a great benefits package and good "work at home" policies.
It also has good research capabilities

Cons

No senior management direction and no real applications development capabilities.

Advice to Senior Management

Define the markets
Define the products that meet the market needs
VBuild Client relationships - get out of the office
Manage in detail - stop sending stone tablets from the mountain with Ten Commandments

Pros

You will have the opportunity to work with smart really people from time to time.

Cons

Bureaucratic organization. Focus on quarterly results which borders myopia. Very competitive market.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to be less of a spreadsheet manager, even though that's difficult in such a large firm.