Hewlett-Packard Reviews

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

Pros – Meg Whitman is strong, inspiring & I do beleive she is turning HP around. I do believe in her.
Supportive of remote working & flexible hours so long as you deliver reliably.
Access to training.

Cons – Meg's turnaround is at the expense of a lot of people's jobs & your judged performance is no indication of job security.
Don't expect a bonus! Recognition tends to be a pat on the back.
Training has to be done in your own time at your own expense.

Advice to Senior Management – If you DO care about keeping the workforce then you are heading for a problem. Once you pare the workforce down to what you want you had better start to compensate again. Long-service are taking EOW & younger, high-performers will leave. You will be left with mediocracy

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – People within technology services are on the whole valuable individuals. There is a lot of expertise within technology, there are some very strong project managers, there are some strong architects. Many of the people managers are excellent.

Cons – Outsourcing business contains a large number of limited skills, hp has disparate business units, lengthy due diligence processes. The consulting businesses should lose the concept of dedicated people managers - and re-introduce team leaders so that they remain practitioners

Advice to Senior Management – Build two all-encompassing consulting businesses ala GBS/GTS - a Business-focused one, a Technology-focused one

Yes, I would 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 a year

Pros – They support remote working and encourage employees to be results driven and rewarded.

Cons – The time it takes to get rewarded and processes involved are often frustrating

Advice to Senior Management – Simplify the processes to get the most out of people

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

Pros – Great people
Great projects
Lots of office & client locations
Excellent R&D talent
Innnovative solutions (outside of EDS)

Cons – Poor regional management
Driven by monthly reporting cycles
Overwhelming personal admin burden
HR is not Personnel = Hiring & Redundancies
"The ropes dont reach the ground"

Advice to Senior Management – Refresh the in-country management tiers
Ban management by spreadsheets
Make local leaders visible to their people

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 7 years

Pros – Expansive Potential Opportunities
Potential Career Accelerations
Work/life Balance

Cons – Silo's
Lack of 'Project Time'
Lack of support with everyday essentials (pens, notepads, envelopes etc)
Evidently only a problem in my division, but profit rather than employee satisfaction driven

Advice to Senior Management – Continue building with the OneHP approach

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 7 years

Pros – - Opportunity to experience different aspects of transformation programmes.
- YOU can drive where and what you want to do
- It's your career, so meet as much people as you can to progress your career forward.

Cons – - Most transformation programmes are IT transformation, typically within an account that HP already has a multi-year contract with.
- The consulting roles are mostly internal consulting roles, which means your client base are the HP's account teams.
- If you don't drive your career forward you are stuck doing things you are not really keen on - you become a generalist consultant.
- There are several internal consulting organisations, so you need to find out if you are in the right one, as there are some variations in what they do.
- Inhouse consultants are typically deemed as body shop ... although the management would argue otherwise.
- Training ... non-existent. Budget is set early in the year, but almost never used and usually gets stripped to other pots.

Advice to Senior Management – Be honest to the team and admit that you are a body shop organisation. If you want to develop your consultants and keep them motivated, develop capabilities in "Business Development" teams as one way to move the consulting team forward.

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 – Blue Chip Company
Job Security
Flexible Employer
Good opportunities if your under the right manager

Cons – Lack of resources with the correct skill sets assigned to projects
Project delivery is focused on payment milestones rather than quality
Employer does not invest in employees enough
Salary packages are not in line with industry standards

Advice to Senior Management – Act earlier... there's a huge opportunity to improve deliverables, be more efficient, etc but senior management always seems to get involved 6 months too late and by then there damage is often irreversible!

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

Pros – Plenty of help and people to support you
Leverage all of HP in helping Account Penetration
Eagerness to change and develop new systems to help Sales

Cons – Average pay
High bureaucracy
Poor marketing and CRM (SFDC replacing this....)

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 a year

Pros – Salary & Overtime
Easy to stand out and look awesome

Cons – Salary & Overtime is killing the company
Rarely uses Open Source solutions in real implementations
No enough challenging work

Advice to Senior Management – Move faster and stop being so corporate or this company will die.

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