Does anyone have any optimism that it will ever get better here again? I think that almost no one believes in leadership anymore and our leaders are without any vision. There is no clear long term plan... and that says it all. This company is stuck and it is becoming horrible to work here.
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Not until the current generation passes and their "needs" fade into the distance.
The answer to this question is no. Long time employee here. I have worked very hard, made my numbers, have very happy customers and co-workers, yet every single fu----g October it feels like it's a coin flip if I or my co-workers will keep our jobs and even if we do, experience has shown that the next year will be worse than the year before. Inevitably more work with fewer people than the year before who are all somehow expected to achieve ever-increasing results while wearing a smile. Promotions and raises? Only if you somehow have enough time left to brown-nose your way into the inner circle, maybe a 1-2% cost of living increase if you're lucky. Our best products are stagnating rapidly, our internal tools are ancient and inefficient, and most of our competitors are pulling further ahead. Despite years of loyalty I have seen absolutely none in return. I am done with this bean-counter-driven-jump-through-endless-hoops-for-nothing-shitshow and I cannot wait to go elsewhere and watch this bloated tech whale beach itself once and for all.
I agree that it's just getting worse and becoming more of a bad place to work with each passing year as we wait for things to get better.
I'm interested when people say it's a death spiral or they estimate two years left or make similar comments. What do you think is going to happen? HPE still make plenty of profits, it's not like they are going to out of business.
There are employees leaving HPE that I thought would never leave. That’s a clear sign to formulate an exit strategy. When I heard top level managers in R&D were leaving, that’s when I decided to leave. That told me that HPE would start cutting R&D employees very soon.
As soon as all inclusion is on target, I don't care whom do they hire.
If there is only a year or two left, let it be that way.
No other company can compete with Cisco Meraki on cloud based wireless deployment.
Aruba cloud was disaster and they gave up. Aruba enterprise or on-premise solution was the cash crop and it still brings in 60-70% of revenues.
They laid off many senior engineers and employees with good experience in the last 18 months.
Revenues down, outsource jobs and target us citizens and ship jobs.
Not sure if they can survive for few years.
Who really wants to buy Nimble?
I started at Compaq in 2000. I survived the mergers, layoffs, off shoring, importing of visa workers, spin-offs, bad products, bad everything! I worked at HPE for 20yrs and it's been a steady decline. I had enough. When HPE offered the early buyout in 2019-2020 I jumped at it. I found a better paying job, with better benefits. The company I work for actually values employees and it shows. It took some some time to adjust. I was so use to the fox ho-e mentality and CYA and working harder for less, with less. HPE is a horrible company and it will never get better. Get out as soon as you can.
Only those will say yes, who have no where else to go
I’m glad HPE let me go last year. After my layoff, many of my friends from the company left but it’ll be sad to not be able to see them again.
To answer your question, no, I don’t see HPE making an epic comeback. The comment below mine is absolutely correct. Look at it like this:
Currently HPE has more employees than HP Inc (by a couple thousand)… but are earning probably 25% of what they are. That’s terrible. No wonder there’s been way more layoffs. Meanwhile, Dell is still leading in Storage/Volume sales. Nimble and 3Par (and whatever weird storage product lines that might still exist) doesn’t come close to Dell.
Aruba is a joke, which is why HPE purchased Silver Peak, but it’s unclear how much fruit that tree is bearing. Moonshot just retired, Edgeline is a private SKU that no one will purchase. So HPE’s strategy for edge computing and IoT has greatly diminished. It’s ironic because didn’t the company just recently launch their new “Welcome to the Edge” thing?
I smell an exit strategy for the company coming up. Two things could happen: HPE and HP Inc. could remerge. It’s a silly theory but HPE is desperate for anything. HPE could also be acquired.
HPE is hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Antonio has no strategy to compete against AWS, Microsoft, or Google. He also canceled all research regarding quantum computing, which was a very pathetic move. I guess the man wants to use silicon forever against IBM.
The IT Monster from HPE’s mascot is taking over the company. It’s time to parachute, my friends.
There is no product to sell. They cannot make enough money selling Nimble and Aruba product lines only, this will go to nowhere. And they wont be able to compete with Amazon cloud. My estimate is about two years left...