Hewlett-Packard Reviews

Pros

Management is very supportive, fair and interested in career growth.

Cons

PMO has improved, however many issues with proceedures and processes. Employee changes in offshore support is quite frequent.

Pros

The Work Life Balance is fantastic the whole team work to live.
It is about making an income to support your lifestyle.

Cons

Decisions that are made on a global scale sometimes do not support local environments and it becomes necessary to seek exceptions from them which can be time consuming and lengthy..

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the Local Country Leaders as they know whats happening in their area.

Pros

Flexible work set-up
Telecommuting privileges
Open communication with peers, leaders
Supportive Managers and Peers
Sharing of best practices
Empowered culture

Cons

Long hours at work
Limited bandwidth/manpowere
Different timezones affecting productivity
some employees are not too competent/underperformers
too much information being disseminated
Top leaders made drastic decisions which were very "un-HP

Advice to Senior Management

Have the right number of people to deliver the task given a particular role, back in 2011, I was doing the work of 2-3 people. Though the set up is virtual, ensure that team members at least see each other once ot twice a year for a gathering / strat planning.

Pros

Large Organization with lots of internal support. There are many good people here and many people who are working to restore the company's public image.

Cons

Company is struggling to find its identity between being an enterprise software company like IBM or being a hardware company like the legacy HP business model.

Advice to Senior Management

Plan a direction, and stick to it, and stop letting the media and public opinion bully you into making the decisions.

Pros

HP china is runing and operating gloablly, must think globally and act locally. Better for fresh graduates to learn and grow.

Cons

business model in HP is complex and unclear, meanwhile the strategy in enterprise service business unit are not well defined.

Pros

Got to see how a large company functioned, this being my first real internship. There was a very clear management structure and my team was very supportive.

Cons

Can get the feeling you are 'just a number', and sometimes you feel a disconnect with respect to upper management.

Advice to Senior Management

Get more in touch with your employees and keep us more in the loop in terms of your decision making process.

Pros

Culture
Work Environment
Campus and Facilities
Friendly
Professional
Stress-free environment

Cons

Low Salary
Low Appraisal
Need slight improvement in management

Advice to Senior Management

Increase package level

Pros

Good exposure and knowledge gathering.

Cons

Low salary and remuneration with limited budget available to a team.

Pros

Open culture
Rewarding for hard workers
Very flexible working hours -- wfh

Cons

Prefers individual contribution with less of employer focus on ur career patch
Less of HR focus for employees-- No team building

Advice to Senior Management

Build more strong processes... and value your employees. Everything is probably not numbers.

Pros

Global Environment, Amazing infrastructure and processes

Cons

A silo version of Product Management. Lack of engineering vision and innovation.