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Re:HP to cut 25-30k jobs by hardwaresofton on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @12:34AM (#10224701)
Wow this is a pretty huge cut. However, I won't lie/sugar coat it -- I think of HP as one of the most stereotypically bad big companies (where you can go in get a job, and almost never get fired, despite not doing very much work), so this is probably a great move for them. I can't imagine it really takes 300,000 people to do what HP does.

I'm sure there are departments that do cutting edge hardware/software work at HP, and I just haven't seen them yet

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Re:HP to cut 25-30k jobs by kalleboo on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @03:54AM (#10225233)
The problem is they tend to cut the wrong people. The bloat is usually in middle management (people "fail upwards" to where they can do no harm), but the people who get cut are on the bottom.
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Re:HP to cut 25-30k jobs by nattaggart on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @01:54AM (#10224904)
After they bought VoodooPC they turned that org into their Envy line which put out industry-leading PC's for a minute. Now it just makes low-end Mac knock-offs :(
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Re:HP to cut 25-30k jobs by prodmerc on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @06:34AM (#10225684)
Industry leading premium heaters/friers, maybe :-D Those early Envys were hot as hell and the processor was right under the palm rest. Quite an idiotic design...
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Re:HP to cut 25-30k jobs by voltagex_ on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @02:39AM (#10225017)
The new Spectre is pretty good.
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Re:HP to cut 25-30k jobs by s73v3r on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @03:11PM (#10229025)
It's not really a great move, because anyone left who is decent is probably going to jump ship due to uncertainty in how the company is going. Simply keeping tabs on the people in the first place, and firing the non-performing ones is a much better way to go.

Not to mention that, when it comes to layoffs like this, it's not always performance that gets looked at. It's just as likely that people making a lot of money, deserved or not, will be laid off, and someone who is less talented or hard working, but cheaper to the company, will be kept.

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