Can thank Carly for the corporate culture shift with transplanting mgmt with CPQ mgmt. Ever since HP has been circling the drain with smoke and mirrors.
The mentality of taking 5-10% pay cut instead of layoff's is for the history books. HP's down fall will lie solely on poor mgmt.. not innovation/products/services etc..
Congrats on leaving on your own terms.. I waited to get booted.. 1 week before my 50th birthday.
My best decision was "leaving HPE in the last year". Because of the poor management in the storage test department. Lots of talented engineers were fired and insulted by those crafty and selfish managers and directors.
It is the way they teach it in business schools today I guess.