Good Culture, Good Benefits, Complacent Management, and Slow to Complete - Senior Software Engineer HP Inc. Employee Review

3.0
11 Jan 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Individual contributors are the heart of the company. They maintain the culture and are a highly collaborative group. Bill and Dave's ethos is still alive (but time is slowly eating away at it). There is a flexible work environment and most managers respect your personal time. Benefits are definitely good, but not great compared to other fortune 500 companies. HP provides excellent bonuses when times are good. Internal promotions and career advancement is excellent at least in my group. It's the best I've seen at any company. Small exception is that if you are on a senior technical track you'll be stuck since almost all senior technical roles get externally hired.

Cons

Management is complacent and slow. There doesn't seem to be much drive than to maintain the status quo. There doesn't seem to be any management or oversight of management. There needs to be more leadership and vision, and less short term urgency. Meeting hell. We'll talk it to death, sit on it, then over complicate it and under fund it, and then not understand what went wrong when it fails. Boom/bust cycle. When times are good almost any one can get an HP job, when times are bad there are mass layoffs and disruption. We call people who have worked at HP for > 15 years "survivors". There is a LOT of talk about innovation, but reality is that HP's big company policies and slowness ensures anything worth innovating on will slowly get starved and under funded allowing competitors to sadly out complete.

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5.0
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Pros

Good company to work for no complaints

Cons

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1.0
3 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

You won’t find a more resilient, good‑humored, and quietly heroic group of employees anywhere. The real pros at HP are the folks who keep delivering results, supporting each other, and holding the place together — even as they’re asked to smile through baffling executive decisions, absorb constant reorganizations, and “embrace” strategies that seem designed by consultants who’ve never met an actual customer. If you want to work with people who can turn chaos into productivity and still crack a joke about it, HP’s rank‑and‑file are world‑class.

Cons

Despite consistently strong performance reviews and years of dedication at a senior level, HP’s decision to shut down our site while offering “relocation” — at my own expense, and only if I re‑apply for the job I already do — says everything about where this company has drifted. The old CEO’s infamous slip, “In HP Business First… I mean… Customer First,” has never felt more accurate. Leadership is disconnected from the realities employees face, yet continues to bring in PwC and other cost‑cutting consultants to tell them what employees have been saying for years. HP was once a company built on innovation, trust, and people. Today, it feels like a shell of that legacy — driven by short‑term cost cutting, site closures, and decisions that undermine both employee loyalty and long‑term business health. For a company that claims to value its people, the actions tell a very different story. Use caution if you’re considering building a career here. The culture and stability that once defined HP are fading fast.

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