Working at Hewlett-Packard in Houston, TX: 66 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Houston, TX Area

"Good company, work from home, good compensation, not so many opportunities to grow"

"Good people, good work environment, nearly ruined by incompetent upper management."

"Its a excellent place to work."

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"Culture of chaos when senior management can not find time in 6 months to have a team meeting. When the same senior manager has his calendar all full of meetings yet no one on the team has any idea what the strategy is or goals are. There are many great people, too bad none of them are in management. The current old management team makes the same decisions and expects different results. This is like General Motors before the crash."

"I have been with HP for almost two years."

"Good company and get exposure to global business."

"HP sucks, especially the ETD Group. Avoid job opening numbers 1317005 and 1286505! Pros... Most of the management has very nice cars, sail-boats, mansions, etc. You can get there, too, especially if money is more important to you than ethics. Cons... ETD group in Houston has openings 1317005 and 1286505, which I would avoid like the plague. 1286505 especially is what I would call a "galvanic anode" opening. Just as a galvanic anode is a piece of dissimilar metal tacked onto the metallic structure of a building or a boat's hull, to protect the structure from corrosion, by attracting the corrosion to this anode, these openings are there for the purpose of attracting the next round of layoffs. Protecting the long-time-there, job veterans, that is. 2 people in that latter slot have now been laid off, while the others (senior ranking engineers), always stay. The senior ranking engineers will keep it that way, by whatever methods they can get away with. The office politics there is the 2nd worst I have ever seen in more than 30 years in the EE business. Advice to management... Take the amount of effort that you devote to chasing money-power-status, money-power-status, and take just 5% or 10% of that effort, and use it, to instead pay attention to running the company."

"Good company for learn and growth. But you need to move and increase your experience."

"HP sucks, frankly, at least in the HP division ("ETD", meaning Engineering Test Development") that I worked for. Spineless management allows your back-stabbing co-workers to write your review for you, instead of your boss writing said review! Lay-offs are ALWAYS looming at HP, so... If you want to look GOOD, better make your co-workers look BAD! This is "forced distribution" at work... To get a "B", make sure your co-worker gets to look bad enough to get a "D"! If you want an "A", work hard enough at polluting the boss's mind about your co-worker, to make sure she gets an "F"! Been there, been at the short end of that particular stick..."

"HP seems to struggle with a critical mass problem. It seems that there are always either not enough people to do the work or too many people drawing paychecks for a project to make sense. I think that HP can restore its former glory by cutting bureaucracy and red tape while hiring good talent. The innovation that HP is known for is still there, but is stifled by the red tape."

"I have worked with HP company. It was a very strong company ethically with very accurate roles and regulation. I learned much when I worked with this company about the system, regulation, orders..."

"It was a good job but they don't try to know you better and help you move up."

"Bad place to work, high turn-over rate. No valuable skill set to gain from most of job"