I guess that HPE will continue to design their expensive water-cooled Frankenstein servers in Houston. I suspect those guys will go crazy when they realize they can’t get decent support from the offshore engineering teams.
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Good riddance. The great state of Texas does not need a liberal failing company. Stay in California!
I guess it means there will still be an office in Houston and the address can be used on correspondence which looks good and gives the impression that whoever you're dealing with or buying from is based in the US. But it will likely be a small number of people still based there with most of the operation based in one of the lower cost locations in Asia.
What is a storefront location? I've seen that comment a lot about HPE Houston, but I don't know what it means? 8m curious because I am in Houston.
Plano also has remote sales and remote pre-sales teams. I suspect they will not only stay but grow as a critical cog of HPE going forward.
As far as I’m concerned, Elvis has already left the building.
I was laid off early last year from HPE. I believe HPE will have very small software development in Texas.
Plano doesn't have much software engineering. A small team doing maintenance here and there.
I wouldn’t say “leaving” entirely. Houston is getting that new campus (to lease) in 2022 but it seems like R&D and engineering is leaving Houston for sure. Plano has a lot of software engineering. Houston will basically be a “storefront” location.
It’s ironic because the opposite is true for HP Inc. where Houston and Taipei are exploding with new R&D and engineering reqs.
HPE is shifting all of engineering (hardware and software) to Taiwan, Singapore, and India. HPE’s western employees are devolving into mere sales, marketing, and business operations people. It’s good that the eastern employees are getting these opportunities for engineering but shifting all of these responsibilities over there shows that the company isn’t expanding at all. They’re abusing cheaper labor to compensate for their loses. That’s greedy and it’s wrong.