HP, HPE accused of coordinated plan to oust older staff

I work for a company that managed to keep an older and very incompetent guy for 15 years doing almost nothing; the guy was an IT technician coming part of an acquisition and they promoted him as manager at the time of the acquisition. I know him very well, I was probably his closest friend in the company: he was a very decent technician and a very nice person (that part explains the friendship), but not a manager, he did not ask for that and never wanted it, but due to legal constraints we could not demote him to technician, so he retired after being passed from one team to another every couple of years.

The same company, the same IT department, for 10 years no men was promoted but over 10 women were promoted. This is because we don't care about age, only about "diversity" so we don't hire and don't promote men. We have even cases where women in maternity leave were promoted (they were not active at that time, not even having a company laptop anymore) and also promoted someone who left the company after the announcement was made, so that the statistics of the promotions for that year would meet the targets. Strange thing, the 2 biggest pushers of these actions were 2 males, they had targets from above and did anything possible to exceed the targets (I heard them say they want 70% women in IT, we are just at 60%).

That’s sad! I’ve had an impression for long time that ageism is actually the most prevalent form of discrimination in IT

HP is attacked but tell me how many people retired from Amazon/Google/Fb... just because they have a tricky compensation system to lower old timer's salary below a new hire, it doesn't mean that is fair...

My personal experience is that there is no ageism in HP. In the HW part of the company experience seemed to be extremely valued. Always seemed like a company which is more loyal, than the average, with their employees. Disclaimer: I’m saying this having been an HP employee. All members of my team were extremely knowledgeable, capable and a fair share of them were also a couple of decades my seniors.