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Business Insider By Matt Weinberger
20 hours ago
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, then Hewlett-Packard's CEO,
at a shareholders meeting in 2002.
While Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina was CEO of Hewlett-
Packard, the company's employees manipulated a system designed to reward
engineers for good ideas — and made out like bandits, The Wall Street
Journal reports.
The way the system worked was simple. If you had a good idea for a potential
HP product, you had to submit it to another employee.
If that other employee signed off that it was indeed a good idea, you got a
$100 bonus.
In the early 2000s, HP was moving away from building business software and
toward building consumer hardware, like portable music players and digital
cameras. This left a lot of bored software engineers with nothing better to
do than come up with good ideas for this contest.
One former HP employee, Peter Hagelund, told The Journal that his division
spent months in 2002 doing nothing but signing off on hundreds of one
another's wacky ideas — including a design for chopsticks that also
dispense soy sauce.
Those employees ended up pooling their $100 earnings and splitting them
evenly. Hagelund said that with his proceeds, he was able to buy a red Jeep
Liberty. After his stint at HP, Hagelund left for IBM, which was a very
different culture.
"If I had put forward the chopsticks idea at IBM, they would have laughed at
me or walked me out the door,” Hagelund told The Journal.
Add this up with a recent report that Apple cofounder Steve Jobs apparently
fleeced Fiorina with a one-sided deal for HP to resell iPods, and it
suggests the company was at least in some ways easy to manipulate under her
leadership. | b********n
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