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Meg Whitman to Step Down as HPE CEO

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184 points praneshp | 4 comments | 21 Nov 17 21:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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rmason ◴[21 Nov 17 22:14 UTC] No.15752105[source]▶
If I remember correctly she said at her last HPE earnings call, "I am not going anywhere". She also stated she had much more work to do at HPE.

Now that was in response to Uber's courtship but this was so sudden you have to wonder what prompted it?

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fullshark ◴[21 Nov 17 22:34 UTC] No.15752255[source]▶
Perhaps CEOs lie to both investors and their employees.
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viraptor ◴[21 Nov 17 22:41 UTC] No.15752301[source]▶
Kind of. The manager in my team (hpe) hasn't been replaced for a few months after quitting, then the project was killed / people let go. Meanwhile, all the communication from the top was pretty much "this is an important project for us". And that's one of the reasons I'm unlikely to work in a big corp in the future.
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1. rmason ◴[22 Nov 17 02:37 UTC] No.15753762[source]▶
He probably left because he learned that the project was going to be killed. Sad he didn't share that news with the rest of the team so you could all be hunting for a job while on the corporate payroll just like he did.
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2. thisisit ◴[22 Nov 17 04:34 UTC] No.15754269[source]▶
I know someone who was in a similar situation recently. The whole thing becomes catch-22. The manager shared his insights but was brushed off as sour grapes and biased against the company.

That said if it had caused some panic at the office the upper management might want to take steps against the said manager. So it's better not to say anything.

3. ggg9990 ◴[22 Nov 17 05:41 UTC] No.15754531[source]▶
It could just as easily be that he was the lead cheerleader for the project and when he left there was nobody there to advocate for it, so it was first to go.
4. viraptor ◴[22 Nov 17 12:35 UTC] No.15756273[source]▶
It wasn't needed. When the manager is gone and a replacement is not hired, it's pretty obvious you should start sending out CVs. Or prepare but stick around for the redundancy pay ;-)