WD reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(4,277 total reviews)
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75% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

WD has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 4,277 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
1.0
Mar 19, 2014

No Sense of Pride

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-A good place to start off and get experience

Cons

-Low pay compared to everywhere else -The company is stuck in its old ways, not very good at looking ahead -Not very good at R&D: they buy companies to get ahead rather than investing in the current employees and experience --Not very good at creating schedules and deadlines: too much work for too few people (sometimes, too many people are involved that it's impossible to coordinate) for too little time --Not very good at staying the course: waver from one idea to the next which hurts schedules and wastes time and talent -Very top-heavy management -The company's MAIN and mostly ONLY focus is making the most money. They will sometimes try stupidly, risky endeavours but if the results aren't positive and immediate, they'll completely forget it and try something else, no lessons learned. -The company makes lots of money and doesn't give any back to its employees.

2.0
Dec 13, 2022

Culture of Fear, Favoritism & Fatigue

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Smart, hardworking people, pay and benefits are OK

Cons

The CEO and many of EVP's, SVP's and VP's that have come in from Cisco are unhealthy/toxic for the company and its people. They are tone-deaf and live in their own ivory tower. They don't get along themselves and the politics hurts their teams and shareholders. Employees don't trust them and don't speak up for fear of retaliation.

2.0
Aug 19, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

People, collaboration, Products were amazing, Pay was competitive

Cons

New Leadership - all former Cisco creating toxic environment Lack of Trust in ELT Hidden Agendas Promoting people for wrong reasons - they uplifted female execs to increase diversity numbers

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