A serious question for those who keep saying to move on: where? I've been trying to move on for a while now, with no luck. All other tech companies are in the same shape as HPE, to a bigger or lesser degree. Layoffs are happening left and right, just look at the other boards on this forum. Dell, IBM, Intel, Oracle, DXC... So I am just seriously wondering, where do we go from here?
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I got out of "Big IT" and went to a University's IT department. Smaller shop (and a lot less, uninteresting) work... BUT I walked in the door with a 15% raise an receive a guaranteed raise yearly. Plus a very generous PTO bank.
Probably will never go back to "Big IT" or maybe even corporate america again.
It's a conundrum that so many legacy tech companies are imploding and traditional non-tech companies like financial services are laying off and startups are always laying off. Where do we go then or does it even matter where you go?
The main part of working long term is holding on long enough to succeed and so many types of companies are volatile in nature. If I could have gone back in time I should have learned how to be entrepreneurial and work for myself and not be a slave to a corporation.
The good old IT jobs are just going to disappear (slowly?). The whole reason why AWS & Google Cloud are killing HPE (and the other "hybrid" cloud providers) is that it is cheaper to manage (aside from hardware cost advantages) ... meaning fewer IT professionals. So unless you are joining Amazon, or Google, IT management is probably not going to the growth path forward.
The growth area is data analytics and AI. So if you have good technical skills, and a smart problem solver, it is not that hard to pivot to data science/AI/machine learning.
Why look at tech at all. Defense companies are hiring big time given the geopolitical environment. You have to be a U.S. citizen and be able to pass a background check and in some cases, a polygraph. Once you're in, the rest is gravy. Defense is going to have access to almost a trillion dollars in spending and the beauty of it is that most, it not all, stays right here in the good old USA. As an aside, your may have to relocate.
It's totally untrue that all other tech companies are in the same situation. Dont know how you got that impression. I suggest you look harder as the previous poster suggested. Stay away from the legacy tech/it companies. They are indeed all dying a slow death.
Do not expect your new job to be the exact same as the last one. Do not be afraid to leave your comfort zone and apply for something you are not 100% qualified for. Many times you are the best they will be able to find (job description usually provides unrealistic details for a perfect candidate)
When I left hpe I got a 15% raise, better benefits, flexibility etc. Will have to wait until the end of the year to see about bonuses though. Though it will be hard to do worse than hpe if I get anything at all.
I took the least good of all the offers, mainly because of more interested work. One offer was 22% raise. HP offered to match the highest offer minus a few percents. Insulting at best!
Why does it have to be tech? try looking at Indeed and see pops up.