WD reviews

The work environment here is always eerie. People walk around like zombies, not making eye contact, either trying to avoid you or ignore you. Everyone always has a scared or concerned look on their face. Plus its smack in the middle of the douchee county culture. Extremely unprofessional place to work. Political correctness is not found here. Managers making disparaging remarks about their employees heritage/decent/nationalities etc. Grow up you old farts! Its an unwritten rule where if you want to stick around, be obedient, quite and do not raise any serious concerns or issues with the status quo. Most people happily oblige. Be a suck up and you will be just fine. The company does not give a damn about its employees. They are not interested in helping your career in any way. They will toss you around different projects as their priorities change rather arbitrarily. They will treat you as a skill set and you will be valued as much as lab equipment. If you are serious about your own personal experience and growth, this is not a good place to be. The pay is below industry average and getting raises is extremely difficult. Very cheap company indeed. The hard drive is dying and they have been unsuccessful in entering new markets due to a lack of vision, direction and having no sense of execution. Upper management is utterly clueless about product road maps which arbitrarily change overnight. They have a lot of cash so they will buy other companies to stay afloat and in the meantime will keep thinning out its employees. This entire year was mired with periodic layoffs and most people don't know how long their employment will last. There is no passion here, its not a happy place to work. They create products based on market demand and after Seagate has entered the market. They are followers not leaders. They never start with a motive like "lets build a great product" its a technology business run unlike a technology business. Solely based on supply demand, not technological vision. If you are a qualified, smart individual, do yourself a favor and do not enter.

- Cheap Cheap Cheap Management Style - Cheap out on parking spot, so even though we have parking lot right in front of the building. We needed to park at the one that's 30 minutes walk away. - Cheap out on frequently replacing water filter. If you are lucky, then you can find some nice debris in your water. (Actually forgot to pay attention and drank it one time) - Cheap management mentality, even on work essential such as upgrading Microsoft office, cables, adapters. - Benefit and office environment of 3rd world country. - Below Industry Pay, Health benefit, and mandatory shut down that requires you to use your own vacation time twice a year. - Cafeteria food that taste horrible and priced to rip you off. - "Employee Discount" on drives that I helped developed but cost more than Amazon's pricing. - Management decisions has its priority based on what makes our VP happy rather than the good of the product. - Managements says yes to every bad decision the VP made, because management knows they will get promoted by kissing his ass, and the VP likes to promote them because he enjoy getting his ass kissed. - Lay off after lay off after lay off. - Lay off decision base of which group CEO likes more rather than which group makes better stuff for the future of the company. - Project cancel and cancel due to incompetent managements even though the Engineers busted their balls and made the product surpass the competitors. - Written daily status, follow by daily meeting to discuss the daily status, follow by bi-weekly status meeting to discuss the daily status, follow by monthly meeting to discuss the bi-weekly status. Engineer spent 2/3 of their time to create status of the other 1/3 of their time. All because management doesn't know how to manage. - Point Fingers! Doesn't matter who's right or wrong! If you managed to point it to somewhere else as loud as you can and as fast as you can you win the game! - Engineer managers bent over backwards to the marketing team for whatever reasons. Even though it should be the other way around.