Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Interesting technology. Cutting edge.

Colleagues and line management are great.

Since HPE, everything is behind 300 layers of corporate approval. The startup energy is gone, and the job I loved is now one I hate. Getting paid correctly is impossible, and no one cares. For all the corporate BS propaganda thrown at us, HPE is a monster buying up energetic startups and crushing the life out of them with unnecessary layers of management and bureaucracy. 5* for Silver Peak before HPE crushed most of what was good out of it and replaced it with an attitude putting cost-cutting first and everything else last. Even though ex-Aruba is the most profitable part of the business and now subsidizes the legacy ones, presumably as HPE has had more time to pile levels of management and bureaucracy on them and completely choke the life out of them. Aruba, it's still a work in progress. Many of us really miss Keerti. All company yes-men are in charge now.

Stop trying to homogenize everything. Hire people who will respect the different cultures within teams, allowing them to maximize productivity. If you can't do that, resign.

Trying to crush all individuality and free spirit out of every acquisition and assimilate them into HPE has caused swathes of resignations.

What to do in response? Carry on.

If you can't handle the concept that one size doesn't fit all, and can't handle that to perform at their best, some business units have different needs to those now reliant on the younger units to make the numbers, before you choke the growth with poor management and a fixation with cost control, resign.

What happened to 'Customer first, customer last?' Now it's unnecessary layers of management and bureaucracy first, and cost cutting elsewhere last.