Sinking ship with REALLY bad middle management
Pros
- Work-life balance is relatively good. - If you work in the right group or need to accumulate experience, you can make do with HP.
Cons
There are tons of reasons HP gets to where it is today: 1. Too many cooks in the kitchen, and cooking either redundant or misaligned deliverables 2. No product leadership - productization process lacks legit support or test. Things stick on the wall in front of exec demos are blessed easily. Great ideas fall short of execution. 3. Unhealthy politics woven deeply into organization culture and communications - transparency is not an option and managers making unrealistic plans and sugarcoating to the higher management - taking a toll on the team 3. Quite some middle management cares only about securing their job and playground, treat team members dispensable. Some manager literally turns every 1:1 into status report, and rejected bluntly asks from several team members for internal transfer although they are eligible. And she got a way with that staying at HP for 20+ years