Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Flexible work schedule, fun work, and amazingly talented coworkers.

A wonderful position for lifelong learners.

Misguided middle and senior management. My project recycled almost zero code between versions, combined with increasing expectations from management (faster releases with more features) caused an increasingly 'good-enough' mantra toward product development, resulting in increasing technical debt and critical support issues.

The market has spoken. The boutique servers HPE's entire business model are built around are increasingly being seen as wasted money since commodity hardware is increasingly viable as HA failover platforms, such as Kubernetes, mature.

I know the revenue generated from high-markup servers was good while it lasted, but perhaps it's time to shift the focus from theoretical computing (The Machine) and top-tier server hardware and focus on generating the kind of hardware and software platforms that are actually being bought to power the E-conomy.