WD reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(4,285 total reviews)
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73% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

WD has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 4,285 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The WD employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Mar 12, 2018

Growing Pains.

Recommend
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Pros

Bleeding Edge Technology. IoT is becoming the future where all kinds of electronics are connecting. Fact is, anything electronic needs digital storage space. WD gets to play in that space to influence new innovative solutions both for consumer and enterprise. Both with HDD and SSD. One can work with the very talented people whose shoe soles are the ones that hit the ground when designing products. Patent potential galore. Paving the future for digital storage which will be apart of everyone and everything's life regardless.

Cons

WD has a history of downsizing every 6 months or so. From small scale (several dozens from an organization) to large scale (shutting down an entire site). Part of this stems from the fact that they've acquired so many companies in the past, that there is too much overlap. As a secondary side effect to this custom, WD is going through an enormous amount of growing pains. Process control, competing ideas for policy, Road Map consolidations, communication, re-organizations in leadership, etc. It's a lot to handle if one isn't used to it. Can't ever execute the same way twice. It's as though there are loads of brand new managers trying to compete for attention/recognition while a new world within WD is being created - or - seasoned managers where they've given up the fight and they're all set anyway. Sometimes I wonder who's actually doing the work. (all this feedback is with regards to my personal viewpoint within the enterprise business unit of WD).

2.0
Jan 25, 2018

Downhill after acquistion

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Western Digital adopted aspects of SanDisk

Cons

There were no opportunities for growth

2.0
Jan 12, 2018

Sales

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great support teams. Great customers. Challenging and great benefits.

Cons

New management has issues.

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