Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Good work-life balance. Supports working from home, but it depends on the manager.

I would not recommend this company because the pay and benefits are lower than average and definitely not competitive. The company does not invest in tools for their engineering groups, and the type of work you mostly end up doing is cleaning up other people's messes.

• Company is behind on the technology curve with their products, trying to catch up with distributed system design with microservices.
• The recent company change laid off almost all their senior engineers and increased the amount of lower-paid, less experienced, offshore engineers from 30% to 60%. Now this new group is expected to transform their monolith products to a microservice architecture?
• Engineering groups are asked to develop leading products with poor tools and limited budgets. This is a company that supports business people, not engineers.
• Engineers spend most of their time fixing someone else's defects and rarely get to work on something new.
• Below-average pay for what you are asked to do. Benefits (especially insurance) are more expensive and not competitive.
• The company makes it difficult to move positions within the company for career growth.

Invest in good tools for your engineers, or what you get is "garbage in, garbage out."

Offer competitive pay and benefits that are truly reflective of the market versus the lowest common denominator.

Build a culture of software quality (more CI/CD) so engineers are not frustrated with cleaning up other people's messy code with lots of defects.