Thread regarding Western Digital Corp. layoffs

April 14, 2016 RIF Rumors - end of day checkup

San Jose Great Oaks campus (~1200 employees) reporting in. Nothing happened here today.

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I personally know of a few folks from the great oaks site who were let go on 4/14/2016.

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Post ID: @nnv+GV9Y1o0

May 4th is another round!

Time to refresh ur resume, dont wait for the axe falling on ur head.

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Post ID: @uyk+GV9Y1o0

Couple groups got cuts in Irvine, engineers on OEM group I know got axed.

FIT technician group is currently boxing up much of their test equipment to be shipped to Maylasia. Deep cuts probably on May 4th, everything will be done before all hands meeting on the 10th

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Post ID: @pdk+GV9Y1o0

This is only the beginning from now till September ...there will be blood, count on it

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Post ID: @ydv+GV9Y1o0

May 4th

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Post ID: @vve+GV9Y1o0

When is that round?

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Post ID: @shj+GV9Y1o0

There will be another round coming soon.

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Post ID: @scr+GV9Y1o0

The outcome made me a little bit nervous. The management team planned to save xxx million dollars based on the cut. Now how do they complete the goal?

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Post ID: @eme+GV9Y1o0

The rumor is both correct & incorrect. The date is right but the >30% scale is wrong.

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Post ID: @znz+GV9Y1o0

I can confirm this post - nothing happened in San Jose today. There is a ton of anxiety, the morale is super low, people are updating LinkedIn profiles constantly (I am getting notifications) - overall, turned out good today but still...

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Post ID: @xpn+GV9Y1o0

They made it sound it was bigger, 10% is still huge

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Post ID: @oae+GV9Y1o0

Very few in Irvine. I don't even think it's greater than 10%.

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