Posting here using the Tor browser as Granny Meg and her cronies may be scanning the IP addresses. Except for 2 people, all of our team is WFRed and has been replaced with people in India. In my opinion the number of people in HPE is still the same... — read more 

Meg gave me a big laugh when our internal SharePoint sites were migrated to Microsoft Office 365 cloud. We received an email from Meg claiming this as one of her personal accomplishments and a gift to all of us. Haha, sorry meg but this is not going... — read more 

Overheard from HR Manager today: Managers will be notified on Monday Aug. 22 about pay cuts for their employees. Letters will be sent on Aug. 25 to all employees indicating 10-15% pay cuts. They are hoping to get additional people to quit, so... — read more 

Anyone knows what's going on with Aruba? I left in 2014 and it was not a happy place.

Insider Activity: Corporate insiders look pessimistic about the outlook of the company stock that they seem to offload shares while they have 44.96 jumped so far this year. A SVP, Controller & PAO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) sold... — read more 

If you are mgmt level 4 and above and not an exec with HPE ES, you will be replaced by the CSC manager already doing the job you do. This is not a spin/merger - it is only called this for tax reasons. It is an acquisition and CSC will run the company... — read more 

Your thougts?

The new IT dashboard is actually a cover for more employee monitoring. When you open your own IT Dashboard, whatever information you can pull there can also be accessed by your supervisor, and, in turn, your supervisor's supervisor and so on. This is... — read more 

I changed work buildings and the onsite RE contractor mentioned many employees badge in and out to work off site. Woukd HPE risk even deeper disgust by employees and industry by actually checking daily IP activity? Read it here but want it to be a... — read more 

We have seen two people that were assigned to our account let go in the past couple of weeks and they have been replaced with folks in India. Unless you are absolutely needed in your current job -meaning that if you leave then the production will... — read more 

Politics. That is her next stop. She will take an assignment on Hillary's team to bolster her own campaign down the road. HPE is about to be taken over by private owners.

I wouldn't be surprised at all, if in 2018 HPE announces a mega-merger with SAP. Think about it... There's no way HPE will be able to survive long term just selling servers, and for sure it won't sell itself to either Oracle or Lenovo...

Fresh out of College on my first entry level job with HPE... Reading all the posts here feel pretty scary. I still don't understand well HPE's strategy (seriously, I'm not joking). If we are going to spin off Services, and most surely Software as... — read more 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/25-hottest-tech-companies-could-acquired-next-august-2016-jiri-kram?trk=hp-feed-article-title

http://h1bdata.info/listlca.php?em=Hp%20Inc These are some of the filings from HP INC. and these were before the split. HP INC IT DEVELOPER/ENGINEER 81,566 HOUSTON, TX 11/19/2015 11/19/2015 CERTIFIED HP INC IT DEVELOPER/ENGINEER 81,566 HOUSTON, TX... — read more 

Selling the Company in pieces, thus lowering its total market capital value to a point that it can be acquired or merged. She is laser focused... She won't stop until her vision is completed and she leave with her pockets extremely full. This won't... — read more 

Just heard from someone who said their manager told him that starting next month, VPNs will be checked. No more badging in and going home. Now, they will be able to tell where we are working from.

I am still at HPE but have an offer on the table for a job with a much more stable company, great work & benefits, but a 20% pay cut. I really like the work I am doing at HPE. After a full review of my finances, my family can/is prepared to deal with... — read more 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us/politics/meg-whitman-hillary-clinton.html

more tech companies laying off

I would hate to admit that I'm just now comfortable witnessing the final demise of both companies. I apologize to all the current employees that will be impacted (it's not your fault at all - you are doing your best, considering all the chaos going... — read more 

On CSC's board... https://www.thelayoff.com/t/IGv1z5w

I can only hope that somewhere, somehow, Bill and Dave are smiling at this young millennial American engineer. To the rest of you awesomesauce people who have been forced to ride the corporate lightning after living through the Meg-Carly-Mark-Leo... — read more 

L3 guy, you might have a big title, but both you and I will will be on the same boat looking for a job at a different Company pretty soon.

Of all the co-HPE patriots who busy themselves around Meggie, doesn't one of them have a secure relationship with her to the tune of pulling her aside and directing her to a hair stylist? For such a wealthy, powerful woman (and the same would hold... — read more 

Had BBC on News on about 30 minutes ago. They reported that a "valid inside source within the Board Members of HPE, buyout talks are underway. HPE was contacted, however they refuse to comment. HPE stocks went up +3% today.". Although I've heard of... — read more 

Leveraged buyout on the way? http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/29/hewlett-packard-enterprise-stock-spikes-after-buyout-chatter.html?__source=yahoo%7Cfinance%7Cheadline%7Cheadline%7Cstory&par=yahoo&doc=103830374&yptr=yahoo

Yes, I was on the meeting in which that "joke" was made... When Meg makes a joke, you laugh. It's called "survival"... You guys have no idea how tough it is when she calls an ad-hoc meeting to request an update.

So....I just passed my 15 year service mark, the last 10 of which have been as an individual contributor. No one has any discussions with me and, as far as I know, my position is not changing. My job code has not changed. My manager has no clue as to... — read more 

Insider Activity: Insiders look pessimistic about the prospects of the company that they seem to offload shares while they are 33.84 up so far this year. A EVP and GM, HP Software at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) sold shares in the company... — read more 

Life on the outside can be good and the reduction in crazy a$$ stress is healthy. This company is failing. Some areas hit harder than others so far and the grind is unrelenting until HPE doesn't exist and Meg gets paid.

"What Whitman internally describes as the "frozen middle" — the 20,000 to 30,000 people inside the company who are stuck in the past and resist change." -... — read more 

Some comments are gold. Did you guys read this post on the portal?

Take away the tax loopholes incentives on doing business overseas (Puerto Rico is a good tax haven example with a faulty design that is being abused ), and in a few years a lot of jobs will return to the US. Look at Brazil, for example... The tariffs... — read more 

HPE decided to close Vietnam R&D site on July 14, most of around 60 people are working of HPE Software BU. It seems the wave of laying of started at the beginning of Q2 2016.