I just got laid off from HPE in October, and my next position had more than a 20% salary increase, so I have to second this HARD.
Also I would really hesitate to take advice from HPE...
Ironically, the author of the article is best known as a humorist (a really good one too). They perhaps could not find someone in-house to write an HPE-career-advice article with a straight face, so they had to outsource it?