Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Knowledgeable and friendly colleagues.

Direct managers try their best to shield engineers from extra workload from upper management.

Easy to move around the company if you network with employees in other fields.

Quickly taking market share from competitors (Cisco).

Incredibly diverse and inspiring employees. A hefty portion of the women here have Masters/PhDs, although not many are in management positions.

Stuck doing time-consuming manual testing over and over again due to delayed release schedules.

Engineers have to beg for opportunities to learn new things or take courses.

Upper management is heavily disconnected from R&D engineers, dismisses engineers' feedback/suggestions, and only makes improvements when forced to.

R&D has the smallest budget; don't expect promotions or budgets to come around when deserved.

No time in between (repeatedly impacted and delayed) release schedules to cool down, perform retrospectives, or pursue other interests in other parts of the company.

Pretending to cling on to the HP way, but not exercising the HP way in any shape or form.

Counterparts are often across the world in India, so expect late-night calls (9pm, 1am).

Listen to the engineers. Listen to the engineers. Listen to the engineers.