WD reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(4,277 total reviews)
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Irving Tan

75% approve of CEO

63% 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
Aug 27, 2015

Sunk Content Solutions

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

MyCloud NAS products are good products and could have made the company a lot of money if they had a clue how to sell and market them. Talented, dedicated people

Cons

The downfall of Content Solutions started when WD brought changed the senior leadership in Jan. Immediately people from past companies that had affiliations with the leadership were brought in and promoted to positions in which they were not qualified. The new leadership never attempted to know the teams, but made assumptions about people without any facts. Once you were assumed to be incompetent, you might as well start looking for another job. Then the big layoff of 8/21. It was mandated above the level of the senior leadership for our division, but our leadership took the opportunity to lay off every Director and Manager in Irvine and Mountain View that were not hired by the new leadership, including all of the engineers. Now they are left with a dictator for a leader and a group of managers with less than 6 months of experience at WD. And this happened with the next release of the product 2 weeks away.

2.0
May 5, 2015

Going down the drains

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great Technology, great Engineers, Great potential.

Cons

Immature SVP, Demoralizing, demotivating and discouraging. SVP is bringing in his own people and driving out the current people. All the directors are leaving.

2.0
Sep 26, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Employees are nice and bond with each other because they all know they in the same boat headed for the waterfall

Cons

No matter how good you or your department does, if WD doesn't blow out revenue # - you won't get a bonus. Layoffs every quarter. Especially March & September. They don't just get rid of deadwood, they let go of good people too. Mind boggling. History of acquiring dumb companies on the "cheap" from the bargain bin of the industry. I can't think of any that made a profit. They are a mashup of multiple different companies which kept their own different systems so no consistent procedures or policies.

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