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An Engineer's View of Carly Fiorina's Leadership

Posted by Zonk on from the yikes dept.

prostoalex writes "There is a pretty damning look at Carly Fiorina's leadership while at HP on TechnologyReview.com. The author was working for HP Labs, the center of invention and innovation for the company, only to be told that nothing exciting will happen in the tech market since it's a mature industry. He left the company in 2003. "The lab was never packed with genius marketers. Carly told us we had no business sense, and that every project needed to make a profit within three years or less. She usually said that right before the research budget got slashed again and more lab employees were laid off."" Update: 03/19 03:13 GMT by Z : As detailed on the TechnologyReview page, they have retracted the story on the grounds that they can no longer vouch for it.

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  1. Essay: The Valley is a Harsh Mistress by MichaelCrawford · · Score: 0, Troll
    Idiotic management and greedy venture capital will beat hard work and genius every time in the struggle to determine which company will succeed and which are doomed to fail.

    Who will be next, to take the hopes and dreams of their employees and investors down with them?

    It's at GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks.

    I mentioned two companies that were still alive, but on the ropes at the time I wrote the essay - Be, Inc. and Working Software. Now both are gone, with not even a domain name to mark their graves anymore.

    --
    Request your free CD of my piano music.
  2. Every Tech Cheered when Carly was OutSourced by ThoreauHD · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can attempt to justify how good she was all you want. The fact is that since Carly has taken over HP, they have no engineering left. Their support centers are in India- Bangalore to be exact.

    HP has attempted to go from a printer company to a server company. They failed. The only support you can hope to have within 1-2 days time for critical servers are the 4 hour onsite 24/7 contracts. And yes, that typically take 2 days to resolve.

    If you don't have this contracts, HP hardware is absolutely worthless. You will be waiting months to fix your servers. An Indian with a broken British accent, will guide you through 30 steps and then misdiagnose it because none of these tier 1 .50 cents/hour bitches know a fucking thing about computers.

    Every tech, SysAdmin, network engineer, and server monkey that has spoken of her has done so with a big shit-eating grin on their face since she was outsourced.

    You find me somebody that thinks she had a purpose other than destruction, and I'll find you and ignorant tech illeterate fuckstain. Have a nice day.