WD reviews

After acquiring Hitachi GST and San Disk, continuous 'reductions in force' left upper management from HGST and technical people from WD, mostly. Problem with this is HGST had strong technical people who would tell upper management what was technologically possible while WD had less strong technical people who were driven by upper management. This has been completely broken now. WD is a broken company with no vision or technical leadership resulting in nonsense technical work and, at best, misleading press releases. NAND pricing will not recover for at least a year and until then WD will continue to miss performance targets and more 'reductions in force' will result. Eventually shareholders will figure out the technical capabilities of the company has been hollowed out.

Unless you are already brought in with a high paying position or into a senior position, it takes forever to move up the ladder. They talk about their ethics and compliance anonymous hotline allll the time and how mangers are not allowed to retaliate against employees who report, but that is not true. They do not care about employees who are confiding in them anonymously. They do nothing to protect them and would rather protect the corrupt managers who are causing employees to report.