Hewlett-Packard Reviews in United States

Pros

Decent stable place to work. Hours are not extremely taxing.

Cons

Past management. I hope Whitman will change things

Advice to Senior Management

Meg, you go girl!

Pros

Benifits were OK untill you find out there are other companies who give out better ones.

Cons

Dishonest management. When layoffs come, they try to find a way not to pay the package. And they to look deep into your profile.

Advice to Senior Management

GO back to the way Compaq ran it.

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

work from home flexibility
professional growth opportunities
some really excellent people to work with
interesting work and some opportunity to choose projects to work on

Cons

pay raises pretty close to non existent. Mgmt hopes same annual bonus each year keeps you happy

HP strives that each benefit be "market average". Average in every benefit = less than average across all benefits.

workload can be quite heavy. Nobody thinks twice of 6 PM meetings and some are genuinely surprised if you can't make a Saturday meeting

promotions seem very hard to come by. internal transfers almost always can't contain a promotion element because that represents an unfair advantage for the hiring manager. HP seems more willing to hire a stranger for the higher position than promote from within.

Advice to Senior Management

more communication is needed from senior mgmt. Meg started out with regular communication but now we don't hear much.

Pros

Global Environment, Amazing infrastructure and processes

Cons

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

Pros

Stable place to work without the real fear of being let go. Nothing at HP (Enterprise Services) was stressful and the work was not difficult. This would be a great job if you just didn't care and wanted a place to spend 6, 7 or 8 hours a day. The best part of working for HP was the ability to print photos for free.

Cons

Dull, boring, work environment. Poor top-level leadership; every week we'd get emails about all the new Vice Presidents we were hiring or promoting. The message from the top was disjointed and inconsistent. EDS offered better benefits and opportunities for growth.

Advice to Senior Management

Stay exactly where you are and don't acquire any new companies, ever. This will guarantee that our paths will never again cross and I won't be subject to your malaise or incompetence or both.

Pros

work life balance, work from home option, flexible

Cons

No career growth. no promotions

Pros

HP is a large company with plenty of training and advancement opportunities. the abilty to telecommute awith HP is a plus as well.

Cons

with HP, promotions will not always result in pay increases. other negatives recently with working at HP is employee morale, due to leadership changes and leader mismanagement.

Advice to Senior Management

go back to the "HP way" of running the company; treat employees with respect and reward them on par with other leading IT companies.

Pros

Access to some interesting products
HP name opens doors
Opportunity to travel and gain Int'l experience
Many intelligent and nice people within the company
Some Sr Management actually know how to manage

Cons

Outside of the CA offices, pay is a bit lower than the norm
Constant reorg'ing has taken its toll on employees
Newer management are learning as they go
Working at HP has become known as a short-term career move vs a long-term

Advice to Senior Management

Spend more time trying to keep the current excellent employees would mean less time wasted constantly trying to recruit new ones all the time.

Pros

Lot of history
good work ethics
Knowledgeable management

Cons

Focused in too many product areas