Hewlett-Packard Reviews

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

Pros – They still have some of the core business that they acquired through EDS.

Cons – hp had no business experience with EDS, yet they bought us anyway. You cannot manage a services company the same was as manufacturing.

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of the $2B budget to maintain your private jet fleet and learn how to run a services company before you decide to trash the rest of them.

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

Current Employee – been working at Hewlett-Packard full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Culture And Values, Work/Life Balance, achieve professional experience

Cons – SALARY the only Cons...sad, great company to work, with a great enviroment to grow profesionally, but the salary is just barely enough to meet basic needs, It´s not what you expect of a big (maybe the number one) IT company in the world.

Advice to Senior Management – Great company to work, in a very high professional enviroment, but, i have to say that the salary that HP offer in this corner of the world is disappointing.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hewlett-Packard

Pros – size, company hertiage, brand recognition

Cons – lack of direction. significant percentage of the real leadership has departed

Advice to Senior Management – review and act on the values and principles the company was founded upon, or re write them...

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – You can learn and get some good experience if you hit the right place. There are some very talented individual contributors.

Cons – Management is insane and you are just a biological robot destined to toil long hours. They have insane rules that make it almost impossible to change or even complete a project. They are not in the real world with the dire situation facing IT or even the businesses.

Advice to Senior Management – Please leave and work for our competition. That's the best thing you can do for us.

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

Former Employee – worked at Hewlett-Packard full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Paycheck. Benefits typical of a large corporation. I asked to be put at the top of the WFR list and managed to get out with a bag of cash.

Cons – Toxic. Forced ratings kill integrity and competence of work groups. Clueless good-old-boy management, pointless processes, embarrassingly poor and duplicative tools. No office supplies. The physical environment provided had all the charm and modernity of a gulag. Heard from several former co-workers that management has reneged on promises to them. They figure the employees have nowhere else to go in this economy, and if they do, they don't fit HP's preferred management style. Only consider if you have no other options.

Advice to Senior Management – At least Meg hasn't shot off any major appendages (yet). But stand by to pull the cords on your golden parachutes; this bird is on fire, and it isn't a phoenix.

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

Former Employee – worked at Hewlett-Packard full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Used to have some good workers, never good leaders.

Cons – Lack of recognition, no confidence in the leadership, who you know not what you can do results in promotion, leaders dont practice what they preach (expenses), absolutely untrustworthy personnel departments.

Advice to Senior Management – Recruit some management that actually cares about quality, people, and leadership (inspirational types). Get rid of the liars and the untrustworthy personnel departments.

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

Current Employee – been working at Hewlett-Packard full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - Being a part of the world's largest institute
- Stable company
- Environmental friendly

Cons – - No Career path
- no growth
- Salaries depend on the ability to get another offer from competitive company and thus being able to get a good counter offer, with good raise

Advice to Senior Management – - focus on the career path of your employees
- Give your employees a good raise

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Pay was ok but nothing special. I did not have to work 14 hours a day like my previous employer.

Cons – This company is poorly managed at the top,middle and much of lower management. My hardware division was almost exclusively white males with almost no women or African americans in sales.
As a woman I felt hostility. The division I was in was run by poor executives. There was no comraderie among peers in sales. Everyone was ruthlessly out for themselves.
So many people I met including my boss had only been there a year or two and really did not know how things worked in the company. People were not helpful when coming on board and if you asked questions people were annoyed or seemed incredulous when you did not know how things worked there. The onboarding was terrible - full of old outdated material and was at a 100,000 foot level. It did not tell you about operational processes and details that would have helped you actually do your job, There was no product training program - you were just thrown in the fire. Being a woman, I would be in division meetings were there were 50-100 white males and no women except myself. NONE of the field sales managers were women or minorities in my US division. The men were hostile - from the newbie sales rep to the sales director to the division VP. I could not believe this was the environment in 2013. My previous employer had women and minorities in all levels of line and management. Women were treated as equals. If I had known HP was like this I would never have accepted a job there. They need a government diversity audit in all divisions.

Advice to Senior Management – Figure out what company you want to be. Create a true long term strategy for success like IBM did and then implement it. Quit having the strategy du jour. Change the culture of a toxic board. Promote from within and don't hire outside managers who are not competent. Since your company is run buy a women, don't use her a window dressing. Put real diversity programs in place and then t develop a culture that really mentors and promotes women and minorities at all career levels. Your competitors like IBM do this superbly and really walk the walk.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Hewlett-Packard full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – discounts on HP merch, although not that much.

Cons – Management by intimidation, Forced ranking review system. No annual raises or bonuses the entire time i worked there. everyone that has been there long term was with Compaq and is in denial that things havent changed.

Advice to Senior Management – Reward your employees hard work, instead of asking more and more and giving nothing in return.

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

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

Pros – Easy to do the minimum and collect a pay check. No one gets fired.

Cons – Mark Turd cut benefits so they are much worse than industry standard. Employees are not valued.

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