Vantaggi
Really nice and equally intelligent people, no matter the discipline (except bizdev, they can be hit or miss) Plenty of people who have been at the company 20,30, even 40 years which keep the original Bill & Dave HP culture alive. Work hard, play hard kind of company. Reasonably good work-life balance unless the team you work on is facing the chopping block in the next year or two. Working remote is nice, but office life led to such deep bonds among teammates. Even used to have birthday parties for important people around the site, and had a site wide bbq every quarter (pre-pandemic)
Svantaggi
Management tends to overcommit to deliverables Software businesses are run like hardware businesses where they'd like to see units move, tend to rush immature software to production, leading to failure, then forcing the project to pivot rather than going back to fix the issues caused by technical debt. Lots of lay offs due to shrinking print market, razor thin margins on PCs, and misc site closures to save money and improve quarterly/annual balance sheets to appease stockholders.