HP Inc. reviews

Upper management's focus is on near-term financials and the major product lines are in mature markets with little to no growth. Investments in new business opportunities are coming none too soon. The result is a lot of downsizing has taken / is taking place and a lot of uncertainty exists about the future. Complicating the picture is that in the U.S. and Europe HP has an aging workforce and has efforts in place to shift to a younger demographic. More experienced, long-term employees are being pushed out via layoffs and early retirement incentives. The standard set of large company issues still exist; bureaucracy, top-down decision making, low risk taking, etc. Raises are few and small as are the year-end bonuses. Don't expect either one to keep from being disappointed. It is a challenging time at HP, Inc. If you are an early career employee, it can be a decent place to gain experience at a large corporation. Just be sure to work in a growing business within the company. Avoid the older, mature, declining businesses.

Whats inside. Complex silos that have competing agendas, broken processes, antiquated systems. What they don't tell you is that HP layoffs aren't a matter of if, but when. That you are doing three jobs, work 60 hours a week, and have no home-life doesn't matter. 40 appears to be a magic age when people get a workforce reduction notice. Oh they say you have 60 days to find another position and supposedly preferential treatment, but HP Alumni report that that almost never happens - not for the over 40 crowd. And then you can never work for them again. So they seek out areas with lower wages, and then there is almost no way to replace that income.