With the seasonally empty buildings the execs are letting their guards down and having hallway conversations that would normally take place in secret. Today while in a breakroom in the Palo Alto office I overheard two execs discuss in detail the massive layoff planned for February 2018.
Sounded like no office or location will be spared.
Meg hacked the company to the muscle and now the new management is cutting away to the bones.
Looks like its truly over in 2018...
HPE is laying themselves off to be a shoestring operation in the field! With little or no Pre-Sales or Post-Sales IT customer facing presens. If the customer is lucky they will get an overworked VAR or temp Contractor.
HPE stop Sabotage your selves!
https://www.techdata.com/careers.html
I was looking at some job boards and noticed Tech Data was hiring HPE resources across the US, feel free to share if anyone is still interested.
Micro Focus is thining the herd to the bare bones in the U.S. It looks like the goal is to outsource to Mexico and India so those countries will be thriving as the US is cannibalized. They are not laying off in the European countries. If you are in the US, get your resume ready. I'm glad I did because I found a job while still employed. It is all about profits for the upper echelon and if you think they care about you in any fashion, you are unfortunately mistaken. It is a toxic environment and life is too short to be a corporate masochist.
This is how they (f--g corporations and their stupid morons - CEOs) gonna make America great again! Get the Trump tax cut and outsource all jobs from their country.
HPE to OUTSOURCE ALL Field Customer Engineer work (CE)
BIG RUMOR that is all but confirmed: HPE is going to outsource all of the CE field Engineers over the next month. THIS includes the backbone of the hardware field support and will also include managers of these. Hardware break-fix will be done by a SUB-K to HPE. This is also why HPE is in the mix of laying off most of their US parts supply chain ( closing Andover, MA site) as they will no longer be needed to support field operations.
I wouldn't doubt it about the massive layoffs! A lot of us that United Healthcare were laid off last year and many of us were older employees with lots of experience. Many companies are now doing this because of the rise of the Machines. Don't laugh! Technology has truly taken over and it's not just the thing of Science Fiction past. People at our company were given no notice.
I know of one person WFR'd at the end of Q1.
The layoffs have begun, my brother says bye to the company after 20+ years of service. Meg has certainly run the company into the ground.
Hello out there......it's true people are fired....50 people at the paramus store in nj all gone by Jan 31 through feb3 ........wake up it is happening.....chopping block has begun and will continue ....use your Brains no business equals no need for you.......employees
I can affirm of the layoff's at Microfocus. I came into work on MLK day Jan 15th 2018. Got the blow letting me know about being laid off. It stinks especially after going through this again. When Attachmate merged with Microfocus, I was laid off but was fortunate to get rehired a few months later. It's a hard concept to accept. Cant dwell on it though, have to get back on my feet and I am determined to find a company that has stability.
Per JP Morgan meeting this past meeting, there will be an additional 700 plus cuts coming. Based in the meeting notes, these will be directed toward hospitals and corporate bases staff. Not for certain about that; very vague in their answers.
Conifer is up for sale and Trey gave several large firms looking to purchase. Decision should be made by mid year
This is coming as I keep hearing more and more whispering in the hallways
Can anybody share anything please
Hay all, these are on track for next month so get those resumes polished
I agree about the fibs on this site...
In TRUE news, there has been at least a smattering of layoffs post-New-Year in Houston. I cannot say more for fear of revealing who I am, sorry... It is motivated by the usual desire to move jobs away from the USA, by all appearances.
I wish people do not post blatant lies and bogus news here. Life is stressful enough otherwise for genuine people who visit this site. Most people come to this site to become aware of the company ongoing/impending layoffs and to share legitimate concerns and news they have heard from reliable sources. The value of this site is lost to everyone once people start pushing blatant lies.
The post about retroactive layoff is bogus. It would be also illegal in most states.
"You will be notified of your obsolescence when you return to work, and promptly be escorted out the door on Jan 2"
Wouldn't they have to notify you before Dec 31st to stop the 401K match vesting?
Don't let DXC divide and conquer. Some former ES folks (and I suspect CSC folks) are understably scared and others angry at the abuses perpetrated on them by leadership. Infighting and sniping here is aimed at the wrong targets. The real villains are the ruthless little man at the top, his talentless girlfriend and lapdog FD! DXC leadership is actively posting on some sites to try and counteract the bad press from all the disgruntled staffers.
No doubt they will cut, perhaps not as much as you overheard, but over the year, positions will go in North America and Europe as work is outsourced to India. In fact, outsourcing to India has really been a massive failure in terms of proving value to customers. The work is rarely done to any level of Industry quality, on time or on budget. But it is cheap and with a little creative accountancy, the story can be made to look ok. The rot set in when EDS leadership decided, many years ago, that they would bail out with as much money as possible. So they configured a company for sale, to gullible HP who in turn managed to lure CSC into the mix. Most of the employees spend as much time looking for another employer as working on the projects they are assigned to. Meg is doing fine, but she has dumped thousands of decent people into the swamp. Of course, Hurd, Brown and others all did similar things. These are not good business people, just hypocrites with connections that enabled them to blight what were good companies.
Léo Apotheker is shrugging his shoulders....
Yes. The top echelon has been working over the ‘shutdown’ to identify and layoff the unsuspecting masses. They chopped large quantities of people today in order to avoid the company 401k match for 2017. You will be notified of your obsolescence when you return to work, and promptly be escorted out the door on Jan 2. Happy New Year
So they're doing meetings during the shutdown to plan the elimination? This must be true!
There were continued discussions today in the Palo Alto offices about layoffs. These are still on the table for next year.
The real problem is not the workforce age. It is actually that HPE is a company without a product, it is a company without personality. Servers and storage could be the "company identity", but HPE lost this market, and the sales force that could revert this scenario is gone. The only remaining product is Aruba, which IMHO is what is going to define HPE for the next upcoming years. However, unfortunately this means that WFRs will keep happeing on all other areas but Aruba. Meg wanted a small company, and Aruba it will be.
It’s coming in 2018
Your loving management team
"I am surprised. In my 10+ years I've hired and worked with dozens of college grads and have never gone over $65k in California"
Are you serious? We were paying new grads that much and more in Ft. Collins back in 2000.
"Lol, other companies will pay “triple digits” to new grads right out of school"
I know that Oracle does, and they are hardly a visionary firm (note, I'm talking about CS and EE majors). If HPE only pays 65K, they'll have a hard time attracting top talent.
HPE pay is one of the the worst among the Tech companies
Lol, other companies will pay “triple digits” to new grads right out of school
With only 5 years experience, I started with $60K at HPE back in 1997. I'm triple digits now. As bad as HPE is, it unfortunately pays on par or higher than most companies.
Are you saying HPE does not sponsor H1B visas? I find that hard to believe, because I worked with hundreds of H1B visas personal during the years I was at HPE. I over heard them saying of thier appointments with the VISA Govenment offices they had to meet regularly.
I was hired out of college into an engineering position, and started quite a bit above $65k. I am certain my older coworkers were making much more than me, though. Perhaps it varies by the role.
I am surprised. In my 10+ years I've hired and worked with dozens of college grads and have never gone over $65k in California and we've never sponsored an H1B. Always used contractors.
hpe sponsors h1bs and they make more then new grads.
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Hewlett-Packard-Enterprise/1266562.htm
The 65K salary upper limit is not accurate for new grads.
So you're saying you made less than $65k? HPE has a very strict pay band for new grads. Depending on the role and region they make between $45k and $65k. Regarding H1B, you must mean contractors because HPE does not sponsor visas. Yes, a contractor costs more than an FTE. However, anyone on a work visa is not getting that full amount HPE is paying. Their sponsors get a huge cut. They're probably clearing maybe $50k a year IF they're lucky, but many times it's way less than that even though HPE pays $90+ an hour for them.
"...why do they give themselves hugh bonus money ..."
(Sic, "huge" is what you presumably meant).
They are HUGE in their own minds, and so they like to bonus!
All we can do is to bend over and take it, it sure looks like to me...
Actually as an older worker I was way under paid making much much less than my H1B and College Grad counter parts. I still got laid off. Had nothing to do with pay. if the company has budget issues, why do they give themselves hugh bonus money each time they do a major layoff?
It’s no surprise management is eliminating the older experienced workers. They unfortunately cost more than college grads.
"There are plenty of anecdotes"
I'm sure there are, but that's all they are: anecdotes. You can't actually believe that senior engineers, developers, etc aren't paid more than their junior counterparts on average.
Not defending the practice by any means, but I think it's a bit delusional to think that senior management has some sort of personal vendetta against older employees. They just have a vendetta against paying for R&D, because that impacts their quarter-by-quarter bottom line. See: rampant outsourcing, etc. I can all but guarantee Meg, Antonio, etc personally view millennials with as much disdain as the senior employees that they laid off do.
"The higher pay that many senior engineers command is the cause."
How is that possible when no one has been getting raises for years? There are plenty of anecdotes of new college hires being paid just as much, if not more, than "senior engineers"