If the layoff and Glassdoor are any indication HPE doesn't seem to have a good track record with acquisitions. Does anyone have any insight on what to expect? It appears all of engineering were given offer letters and only a smaller subset were given 3-year retention packages. Of course the retention isn't guaranteed, it's contingent on you being employed year after year. Are offer letters without a retention HPE's way of forcing people out without paying a severance? Should those with a retention feel any less worry about the chopping block? They haven't given much plans beyond immediate integration with the HC 380. I don't have confidence they'll keep the product... no product, no workforce.
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So much irony wrt CPQ. In the 90's when HP was considering buying out Digital, Dave Packard put the kibosh on it, the cultures were not compatible were his words.
HP died 15 years ago with the merger with Compaq. All that is left now is Compaq. HPE (Compaq) has made a core competence out of showing that they not only don't care in the slightest bit for the employees but are actually actively hostile toward them. It will ultimately be the end of the company but Bill and Dave did such a good job in creating HP and indeed starting Silicon Valley that it is a monumental task. Don't expect that they will be capable of integrating a successful company or that they are really even interested in trying. Should Simplivity be successfully melded into HPE they would be the exception. As the revenue continues to drop the behaviour will get stranger and stranger until HPE (and SimpliVity) are all but forgotten. At this point, SimpliVity is just one of the life boats on the Titanic that got tangled in the rigging and is headed to the bottom with the rest of the ship.
Want to know how is it to be acquired by HPE? Do a search in Google for (type it exactly as below):
"the acquisition" "linkedin" "camponotus saundersi"
You should get a search result pointing to a LinkedIn Pulse article written by an ex-peer several months ago. I think he describes the high-level process pretty well. Good luck!