Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Many very talented colleagues. First-line managers generally care about employees and treat them well. Good health benefits and vacation.

In most areas, HPE has an explicit goal of eliminating all "onshore" employees. There is no future at this company outside of India or Costa Rica.

Key, experienced, capable people have mostly left, and operations are at risk of imploding if an unforeseen problem develops. The entire focus is on cost cutting; quality is unimportant, and raises and bonuses have been nonexistent for years.

Management deploys an evolving array of buzzwords to create the illusion of progress, while business basics are ignored.

Abandon the current strategy of providing narrowly-defined services on a commodity basis with cheap, unskilled offshore labor. Margins are low on commodities, and offshore competitors can do it less expensively, lacking highly paid US executives and real estate in Palo Alto. Try to salvage the remains of the corporate cultures that made EDS and HP into major success stories. Hire high-value people and pursue complex and customized service contracts with higher margins.