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Company with a great past but an obscure future, with a very political environment; employee development is a matter of luck

Solutions Architect
Former Employee
Worked at Hewlett Packard Enterprise for less than 1 year
June 28, 2016
3.0
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Pros

You can learn a lot at HP. The complexity of the work environment holds so many challenges and provides opportunities to explore, create, and improve. Everything can be challenged, simplified, and made more efficient: administrative and operational processes, communications, and information and knowledge sharing.

You can meet, work, learn, and get inspiration from exceptional experts who are pioneers in their field.

HP offers a great benefits package, and an HP badge can get you a discount almost everywhere.

There is good opportunity to travel, as the company works around the globe and teams are dispersed.

Employer-paid certifications are an option, but not granted across the company.

Cons

It is a matter of luck what kind of team you will be working for, as the work and growth environment depends mainly on the team manager. This could mean that training and promotion can depend rather on political decisions and connections than on personal skills and talent.

Hard workers are often exploited and left unrecognized, especially in case of frequent changes of management.

There is a lack of transparency across the whole company.

Advice to Management

Invest in actual people, not in politics and blunt messages.

Provide transparency over every process and decision so that HP employees can feel as part of a living organism, not a rusty and inefficient machine.

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