Old dinosaur looking to reinvent - Senior Software Engineer HP Inc. Employee Review

2.0
6 Mar 2019
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Pros

Great CEO, a very inspiring speaker, and a good top management team. I really enjoyed their vision and presentation skills. Competitive salary, good benefits. Free coffee machine.

Cons

Old garage office atmosphere. Printer parts everywhere, old dirty carpets, layers of dust. Hardly any natural light. Work life balance is a joke, I was expected to be in my seat 8 hours a day, every day. Hiring process was a joke as well. They were hiring a number, not an individual. None of my references were called. I didn't meet a single team member nor my future manager during the interview. Highly hierarchical management structure. It'll take years to see the light. Workaholics would do well there. I met a few pearls of wisdom surrounded by dark waters of age and complexity. Clans of old timers make team work more difficult than it should be. Good ideas get buried within complexities of habitual tendencies. If you are looking for a healthy work-life balance within a high energy environment, look someplace else, or at least insist on meeting your team and seeing your future office during the interview.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
3 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

You won’t find a more resilient, good‑humored, and quietly heroic group of employees anywhere. The real pros at HP are the folks who keep delivering results, supporting each other, and holding the place together — even as they’re asked to smile through baffling executive decisions, absorb constant reorganizations, and “embrace” strategies that seem designed by consultants who’ve never met an actual customer. If you want to work with people who can turn chaos into productivity and still crack a joke about it, HP’s rank‑and‑file are world‑class.

Cons

Despite consistently strong performance reviews and years of dedication at a senior level, HP’s decision to shut down our site while offering “relocation” — at my own expense, and only if I re‑apply for the job I already do — says everything about where this company has drifted. The old CEO’s infamous slip, “In HP Business First… I mean… Customer First,” has never felt more accurate. Leadership is disconnected from the realities employees face, yet continues to bring in PwC and other cost‑cutting consultants to tell them what employees have been saying for years. HP was once a company built on innovation, trust, and people. Today, it feels like a shell of that legacy — driven by short‑term cost cutting, site closures, and decisions that undermine both employee loyalty and long‑term business health. For a company that claims to value its people, the actions tell a very different story. Use caution if you’re considering building a career here. The culture and stability that once defined HP are fading fast.

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