Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Sometimes upper-level management gets things right.

Projects are sometimes interesting.

Pay and benefits are very good. Not crazy like the FAANGs, but still very fair.

When I worked for HPE the first time, it was boring in a good way. No surprises, no weird power trips by managers. But I moved to the Cray product line and... see negatives.

Do NOT go to work for the Cray subdivision. It is absolutely governed by fear, abuse, and micromanaging.

First line managers fear middle managers, and middle managers fear upper levels.

The managers are almost uniformly bad. Most are lazy, and many are abusive. I have watched multiple managers scream at engineers for a variety of reasons, and more often than not, the managers were simply wrong about the facts of the situation.

There was a bad agile implementation that created a lot of friction with no accountability, and somehow upper-level management can go down many levels and update an individual.

Most teams seem to dislike other teams.

Remove every manager in the Cray division.

I don't know of any of them that are good.