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      3.7

      69% would recommend to a friend

      (4,281 total reviews)
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      Irving Tan

      76% approve of CEO

      62% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Culture & values

      3.5

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Compensation and benefits

      3.2

      Senior management

      WD has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 4,281 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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      4K reviews
      4.0
      Jan 5, 2014

      Magnetic Storage is a stable business and WD is a strong player in this market.

      Senior staff engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      After the acquisition of HGST, WD is one of the duopoly companies in magnetic storage business (the other is Seagate). Therefore if you have a stable position in the company that means job security. The jobs are also hard to outsource. In hardware business, I would say it is pretty good in terms of base salary and profit sharing.

      Cons

      Company is very tight on everything else such as Perks, insurance and working environment. That is the in culture of WD since that is how it is survived in the price-sensitive cusumer storage market (PC and external storage) with low profit margin. Also the company has a tradition that

      3.0
      Dec 22, 2013

      Very dynamic working environment for better or worse.

      Principal engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Reasonable compensation & benefits in terms of basic pay, pay rise and bonuses. The working environment is mostly open and flexible.

      Cons

      Middle management level lack of proper management skills. There're serious gap between the high level to the engineer level due to the insufficient communication and clear strategy by the middle management. Management approach varies significantly across different departments. Very poor English language level even at the engineer level and above.

      2.0
      Dec 20, 2013

      Always VSS

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Easy job. People promoted by seniority

      Cons

      No clear system. PC are always making changes everyday

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