Old dinosaur looking to reinvent - Senior Software Engineer HP Inc. Employee Review

2.0
Mar 6, 2019
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Pros

Great CEO, a very inspiring speaker, and a good top management team. I really enjoyed their vision and presentation skills. Competitive salary, good benefits. Free coffee machine.

Cons

Old garage office atmosphere. Printer parts everywhere, old dirty carpets, layers of dust. Hardly any natural light. Work life balance is a joke, I was expected to be in my seat 8 hours a day, every day. Hiring process was a joke as well. They were hiring a number, not an individual. None of my references were called. I didn't meet a single team member nor my future manager during the interview. Highly hierarchical management structure. It'll take years to see the light. Workaholics would do well there. I met a few pearls of wisdom surrounded by dark waters of age and complexity. Clans of old timers make team work more difficult than it should be. Good ideas get buried within complexities of habitual tendencies. If you are looking for a healthy work-life balance within a high energy environment, look someplace else, or at least insist on meeting your team and seeing your future office during the interview.

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 8, 2026
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Pros

Free T-shirts, water bottles, and notepads sometimes

Cons

Chronic frustration. disingenuous, performative executives infantilize the workers. Genuinely helpful, productive, effective coworkers around you are routinely laid off. Business operations that keep the cogs turning constantly being gutted. The sales staff is left holding the bag. Maintaining a good LinkedIn ready image is more important than being effective and productive.

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