Hp’s axe has been swinging for some time now. Ever since Hurd took the helm. Good for shareholders, bad for employees, as some will probably say. Most of the printer R&D is in china now.
Good news is that friends have said there are quite a few “printer” startups in S.D. Not sure why there would be so many printer startups, but oh well, I have to take what they say to be accurate (not in my line of work).
I also heard the ax feel at Kodak recently, though some folks are getting a pretty hefty severance.
The ax also fell at Nextwave.
The ax also sort of fell at Intuit (small axe, i think)
And the ax also feel at BAE systems.
Good news though is it seems like folks I know that got impacted were able to find something pretty quickly, except the folks that are in senior managers/directors/vp’s. Guess in downsizing times, it’s sort of better to be a technical grunt than a non-technical “people manager”.
I think for example, websense is hiring, and it seems like hiring is picking up at Nokia (sort of recovering).
On the other hand I “heard” Broadcom isn’t doing too well (San Diego office). I heard they’re need to find a customer for their WCDMA chip or else (and you can speculate what the “or else”) means.
