Hewlett-Packard Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Hewlett-Packard full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Telecommute facility
Compensations - health and otherwise
annual bonus
Result oriented work environment

Cons – I do not have anything negative about my work experience.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep the employees that are high level and loyal to you.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Hewlett-Packard full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Plenty of opportunities. You get out what you put in!

Cons – They used to have free drinks for the employees - not any more....

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Hewlett-Packard full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great team work, plenty of opportunities for advancement, lots of diversity.

Cons – With acquisitions (Compaq, EDS, etc.), HP struggled to integrate cultures. That led to more divisiveness, in an already-siloed company.

Advice to Senior Management – Revert back to culture of Bill and Dave days. Colleagiality, teamwork, flat management layers, opportunity for advancement, integration with local communities.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Hewlett-Packard full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Very experienced and knowledgeable workforce. Reasonable access to training, flexible work hours. Decent benefits (although deteriorating) and work environment.

Cons – Lack of leadership, unable to stick to a strategy and execute it. IT is a major problem and hampers innovation and ability to do engineering work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hewlett-Packard full-time for less than a year

Pros – Entry level positions for recent college graduates
Relaxed environment
Intelligent and competent coworkers

Cons – Pay is low compared to similar positions at other locations
Have to stay for many years to advance
Upper management not in tune with employees
Structured processes may limit out of the box thinkers

Advice to Senior Management – Grow and retain talent by offering higher pay and more incentives to do well. Offer more training and development for employees. Don't place so much emphasis on obtaining certain certifications in order to move up.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hewlett-Packard full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great flexibility for work life balance. Great process for how to execute and healthy budgets. Good frameworks in place.

Cons – Encumbered by large silo'd organization. People often focused on their job and not the bigger picture. Processes can be roadblocks to getting work done.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Hewlett-Packard full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Coming back, but it's a continual struggle.

Cons – There are still many challenges and layoffs are still a real possibility, so it can be a difficult environment.

Advice to Senior Management – Fix the compensation issues, getting a promotion without a raise since salary actions only happen once a year s a problem.

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Hewlett-Packard full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great people (especially long time employees and new college hires). Good large corporation benefits.

Cons – Not much news here, disfunctional and mediocre Board of Directors, averaage senior management.

Advice to Senior Management – Cut the overhead & management fat. Eliminate &/or reduce the Business Groups & Units stovepipes. Allocate more resources to innovation and customer facing resources.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Hewlett-Packard full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great company to work for, good pay, great people

Cons – Constant change, layoffs, more questions than answers

Advice to Senior Management – Hire competant upper management, appreciate the guys in the field more, and quit changing the model year after year just to balance the books on bad decisions.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Hewlett-Packard full-time for more than a year

Pros – Excellent technology and good people.

Cons – Could not properly market and sell competitively.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company