“(...)Hewlett Packard Enterprise is planning to ax at least 5,000 workers, or about 10 percent of its staff, by the end of this year, according to a Bloomberg (...)”... — read more 

I have heard that we are cutting a lot of upper mgmt in the U.S tomorrow. does anyone know the exact numbers and regions for this. I wonder if sales reps will be caught in the latest round of never ending layoffs. are there any other areas being... — read more 

There are some simple financial and market forces at play here. Firstly, when a company stagnates that is the size of HPE and hits the skid pan with flatline revenue, margins are on downward spiral and there is no line of sight to become the low cost... — read more 

It's clear she is on her way out and she is also an insider who knows that something dramatic will soon happen. "(...) Margaret C. Whitman sold 249,052 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, September 14th. The stock was sold at an average... — read more 

I'm so glad I left! After years of turmoil at HPE, I feel like I have PTSD! What a nightmare Meg has created.

"(...)Some of the chatter may centre on the possibility of job cuts with insiders on the sales floor expecting a double digit percentage of employees to be chopped at the end of this financial year - some suggested it could be 20 per cent which would... — read more 

Unfortunately too late. She already destroyed the company in an irreversible way. "HPE CEO Whitman Didn't Leave for Uber -- but She Still Might Depart This Fall The stars seem to be aligning for Whitman's departure from HPE. She originally said she'd... — read more 

I work for HPE in the UK where, quite frankly the business is in total disarray. The management have no clue in how to galvanize, focus or drive for results -they are more interested in saving their own backsides with review after review of numbers... — read more 

If you Google "HPE insider trades", you will find Meg had been crazily cashing out stock from June 20 to Aug 16. I downloaded one year insider trading details and analyzed the trading pattern. Seems like Antonio has been doing quarterly stock offload... — read more 

Here are my predictions: 3 months - significant restructuring to meet q4 reduction goals as highlighted in q3 earnings call. Most middle management, project managers, escalation resources are done away with to move us more toward a pyramid instead of... — read more 

I really don't think it's about the "old people" who haven't caught up with the latest technology still working in a technology company. That's a rather broad brush to paint. They may not have good excel, texting, IM skills, but they might be able to... — read more 

I was just wondering if anybody thinks that the latest results will hold up long term, or if this is just the last hooray before HPE goes down for good? I'm just curious at how other people see this. I will admit that I did not expect to see us even... — read more 

According to MarketWatch.com

I can bet my job that she's planning an immediate RIF to further improve our financial position.

Can we send Meg to IBM. They need a new CEO, now it'd be perfect time. Also, they are cutting a lot, she'd feel fairly comfortable in such environment.

Where is all this "layoffs are certain in the next 2 months" coming from? I'm yet to find any concrete information about it, but it keeps popping up all over the place. I thought that the latest round would have made sure we were safe at least for a... — read more 

It's not that bad... Not at all...

What's your prediction in regards to earnings? I vote Repeat. Same ol same ol.

I've been hearing rumors that something is afoot again at HPE, and I can't find any concrete info on it anywhere. I was wondering if anybody here knew if we should be expecting another round of layoffs this year? I am talking something more... — read more 

The problem with the boomers who are left at HPE is that they have floated to the top of the septic tank with their survival skills which have nothing to do with the job and everything to do with keeping a low profile and getting as little as... — read more 

As I have said repeatedly over the years, Granny has zero leadership skills. She also has zero vision of where things are going. She is good at financial hockus-pockus - layoff employees, sell parts of company, all for the benefit of her own bank... — read more 

Fox Business News, counting from 7 to 1 - Meg wins to be the worst ever. Thanks Meg for destroying HP and the terrible display of laying off people and selling HP to a foreign company (Micro Focus) is shameful. Micro Focus does not have a good track... — read more 

http://www.marketing-interactive.com/hp-enterprises-marketing-lead-karen-holland-departs/

I think Meg sees the potential in HPE and has made cool acquisitions, but the leftover boomers are not helping things. It's just a different world. The boomers add value from an SA perspective, but working with people who don't have excel skills... — read more 

You know there is no hope when the CEO of a company is Job Searching. I have nothing else to say to this SAGA !!!! When Catherine Lesjak jumped ships it was very obvious that HPE had no future with Meg Whitman on board... — read more 

After 17 years at HP/HPE I decided to leave the company a few months ago. It was a hard decision, I really enjoyed all the years I worked there. And I hoped I could be more optimistic about the future, but looking back the last 10 years, I really... — read more 

She made herself clear, she is out for herself, when she showed up at the Presedential debate in support of Hillary and thought she would be given a spot on her staff, even though she previously ran as a Republican. So... when she is cheating on HPE... — read more 

They keep laying off established and component ArcSight QA Engineers, etc personal from all areas and replacing them with Costa Rica employees. After the several layoffs in the last two years, they do not waste anytime to start recruiting in Costa... — read more 

Things must be REALLY bad over there for them to want to commit seppuku

Forever playing catch up to the competition ever since it has been disrupted their community seems awfully quiet. https://community.saas.hpe.com/t5/ArcSight-Questions/qa-p/arcsight-qa Don't worry folks MF + being the 7th largest pure play software... — read more 

Its just weekly layoffs and quarter after quarter of missed results, and the whopping 1-2% raise at the end of the year if you are lucky. Hiring people as contractors with horrible benefits and not making them full time and the increasing stale work... — read more 

Prior to spinning off from HP, HPE’s Enterprise Group operating margins averaged close to 15%. Now they’re at 12.8%. http://www.barrons.com/articles/why-hpe-is-earning-less-than-peers-1502877088?mod=BOLFeed&tesla=y Must be because of all the "happy"... — read more 

What does Meg know that the rest of us don't? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hewlett-packard-enterprise-co-hpe-001505622.html (Ok, yes, we know it, too...)

In a Nimble virtual town hall today, it was mentioned that HPE transformation is expected "to be completed by November 1st" and while Nimble had a strong quarter, a couple of compromises need to made. To me that means WFR are gonna hit hard by then... — read more 

Management in HPE Houston MFG decided to do something different and of course might not be a good idea and possibly illegal. MFG HPE Employees are being tracked with their HPE badges and now have to clock in and out with a separate badge as well as... — read more 

I see a lot of people here posting that they hate working at HPE, but I actually enjoy this place. I get paid well, do what I like, and people around me are decent and hardworking folks (for the most part). I am not saying people who hate working... — read more 

See https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/business/dealbook/shown-the-door-older-workers-find-bias-hard-to-prove.html ... Note at the very end of the article, a LOT of POTENTIAL suits never do go to court... They are settled out of court "voluntarily"... — read more 

Can anyone add any veracity to this?

This is not directed towards any specific employer, it is generic… Please forward if appropriate… The short version is this: As a brand-new college grad (or other youngster new to the work force), you haven’t yet had the chance to get laid-off and... — read more