Compaq Employee Reviews for Senior Software Designer

"What had once been the best place in the world to work was bought out and denigrated into poor products, poor services, poor management, and no job security"

What do you like about working at Compaq?

"Tandem the company I started with was so great every change over the years was simply degradation. Tandem was work hard play hard and we did both."

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

"Only consider working for the high profit divisions on the lastest technology, the rest will only waste your career away. Leave the second your division sees trouble, they'll have no loyalty for you, you should have no loyalty for them. Demand $$$$ everytime they NEED you and cash out quickly. My biggest mistake was feeling loyal for the great things it had been in the past."

What don't you like about working at Compaq?

"Between CEO and board scandals, piled on more CEO and board scandals, management degraded to bad ideas and scandals top to bottom in the company at least at my division. I stuck around to vest stock options but I should have left before it got as bad as it did instead."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Start over from the Board thru Hurd and on down. Hurd was ousted last week but I'm afraid the curse will not leave with just the CEO"