Working at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, CA: 56 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Palo Alto, CA Area

"HP is so large that it left employees in the dust as in person in person contact. The HR department is overwhelmed with huge amount of employees. Almost everything that you need support from HR, is available on their internal website."

"Great company to work for."

"No incentive for hard work."

"I worked for HP for 3 years and I found it to be a great place to work. You really get rewarded when you are passionate about what you do and every little thing you do to improve the quality of service for the company's customers."

"I had great experience here. Projects were challenging, yet interesting to work on. Co-workers and extremely nice."

"I have worked in HP for a year and appreciation/inspiration was little less. Apart from that all others were good. Good place to learn. No pressure on your daily duties."

"I have worked for Hewlett Packard for eighteen years and I have enjoyed working for the company. However, I am looking for other opportunities."

"The company's ok. Good working environment and good people."

"I was able to advance my career by the many on-line courses that were recommended and available to the employees."

"I love HP since day 1. IS a company that takes cares of all the employees. Very flexible and family oriented."

What do you like about working at Hewlett-Packard?

"Collaborative engineering, trusting of workers, flexible work hours, my project is a high priority, well funded, working with the state of the art technology."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"People skills are equally important as hard technical skills. Be firm, friendly, IT is short staffed, be patient."

What don't you like about working at Hewlett-Packard?

"Much time and money is wasted on project reporting tools that everyone fakes the info contained. The processes are overly complex. Approval processes take up to 12 people to approve before implementation."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"HP silos engineers by skill set, HP should move to multi talented teams, leverage the power of collaboration."

What do you like about working at Hewlett-Packard?

"A huge company with many choices of systems peoplesoft oracle."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"a very tough interview with coding samples; expect strange technical challenge questions."

What don't you like about working at Hewlett-Packard?

"A huge company with too many rules, unforgiving culture, too many locations."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Simplify structure, remove older tools and structures, remove stove pipes."

"In HP I got a good experience."

What do you like about working at Hewlett-Packard?

"It was a very friendly and innovative environment, I learned many new things."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"I think it is a good company that appreciates innovations and out of box thinking."

What don't you like about working at Hewlett-Packard?

"My position was temporal and no opportunity to move up."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I don't have any suggestions, I liked the environment there."

"Great field related experience with lots of learning opportunities."

What do you like about working at Hewlett-Packard?

"It was related to my field and expertise, and there was always something new to do or develop or to learn."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Do your best if granted the opportunity to have a better position."

What don't you like about working at Hewlett-Packard?

"Wage, and how it interacted with employees, no continuing education."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Better understanding of what or how the production line is doing their job efficiently."

"HP used to be a great place to work but is changing."

What do you like about working at Hewlett-Packard?

"HP used to give employees lots of flexibility in job opportunities."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Move around the company to find which job you like the best and which group you like the best."

What don't you like about working at Hewlett-Packard?

"HP work environment has deteriorated due to industry competition being fierce."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management must always keep the company's interest in mind, not just their own."