Hewlett Packard Enterprise

A great place to pick up experience and grow as a techie.

No dress code. Lots of opportunities to learn new stuff.

The air of insecurity is rich, and it starts from the top down.

Way too many layoffs affect everybody. That's contractors, full-time employees, management – literally everyone gets put on the chopping block. It makes people insecure and often mean-spirited to each other because they've got mouths to feed at home.

Don't be surprised if you get backstabbed or have your work sabotaged by someone trying to save their job from an oncoming layoff you were not aware was around the corner.

It would be one thing if it were just your colleague who was feeling/acting insecure; it's another when it's your lead, manager, project manager, or boss's boss feeling that way. Everyone walks on needles.

I don't know what to say to management about the situation in Houston. I worked at HP from 2007-2010, and it was like that.

As in, outsourcing to Asia was destroying team morale in Houston. Only to come back there in 2016 and discover nothing had really changed in terms of employee job security.