Finally... what took my useless manager so long. He was absent for so long, he had no idea what I was doing!!! Months of cancelled 1:1s. Never time for team calls! Thanks WDC for the year long vacation!

No matter how anxious I am now about whether I will be cut or not, I try to be an optimist and think that a layoff can also be a good turning point in my career. How many people do you know who were got cut here but are now happier than ever? I... — read more 

And so are the cuts here. There is no transparency, no logic, the company is doing its best to keep everything under the radar. I've started to despise this place. I loved my job here, but at this point I wouldn't be too depressed at all if I got... — read more 

Any department?

What type of company is this one? I joined 4 years ago and stock has always been a let down

Does anybody have an insight into the split? Also, what happened during the last flash cycle?

I hope there won't be any big cuts around the corner. Any insights?

Leaders are preparing to do layoffs next week. With any luck, you will get a package. Right now we are all on the Titanic!

Loved article by Google. This is exactly what the HGST people are doing inside of WD. RESTING AND VESTING! You know who you are. get to the 4 year mark..now 3 and you are in the cash cow machine. Funny that it is such an open discussion at VP level... — read more 

we.care but they.dont

well..folks based on all that is going on or not going on in BUs makes me think we are headed for the split. WD ki---d SD. Clueless HGST leadership could not fight way out of a paper bag. I'm talking to you JK. No sales kickoff, but a political... — read more 

Earnings are out and revenue fell short of expectations, down 8% year-over-year. Cloud revenue increased 5% but client revenue declined 14% and consumer revenue declined 23% year-over-year. The stock lost 6.17% in pre-market trade following the... — read more 

In any case, no matter how many of us are affected, it is bad. However, I still hope that the layoffs that everyone is talking about now will not be huge. Anyone with a bit more detailed information? How many people could be affected? Who could be... — read more 

Rumors have been flying over the past week and a half about the potential for a layoff this year. Nothing from official channels, but the rumor is that they will be announced this summer and will be MASSIVE!!!! Stay tuned!! I have heard that a... — read more 

That's the company pay ratio between the CEO and the median worker pay at Western Digital. Look at that number and tell me there's not something monumentally wrong there. We are having layoffs all the time when just halving the CEO's pay could save... — read more 

We would get so many COVID emails every day and then they move it all to a bulletin board online. I feel it was in order to hide the rising cases of COVID to keep employees coming to work without freaking us out. I wish they would actually care about... — read more 

It would be interesting to do a survey about stress levels at WD. Have you ever experienced more stress than you do now? Personally, I have never been under a greater load and stress. I have already started looking for other options.

It’s so sudden to hear his announcement to leave, also suspicious.

How will recession impact WDC?

Anyone know?

https://www.barrons.com/articles/western-digital-wdc-flash-memory-business-elliott-51654676114

It would have been better than the mountains of work I am expected to do now. Those who were laid off are the lucky ones, they just don't know that.

"Create what's next" that's our new tag line, which is pretty good, but the LA 28 Olympics has "Creating what's next" so now looks a bit of a sc--w up. la28.org

When my health became compromised due to stress, I decided it was high time to resign. The biggest issue for me was that everything was always very urgent, but in the end, when I finished all the work, it would turn out that it was not urgent at... — read more 

What a disaster and waste of money. The only thing investors care about is splitting up the company. More vanity projects by Goeckeler and his playmates.

This is a rethorical question.

This is borderline gossip but here it goes anyway. What do you think, who will be replacing Goeckeler in the CEO chair?

People are talking about cuts next month, does anybody know where is this coming from?

Today is my last day. It is shocking how many people in IT have resigned in the past month. The wheels are coming off this company.

I am often shocked at which positions are given to those who are not at all qualified to be in such positions. Is it really possible that the standards have dropped this much? How do those who are really knowledgeable feel when someone who is far... — read more 

How many times do we have to hear “Do you know who [my boss] is” just to get their way. Have you ever thought of asking politely and or actually going through proper channels to execute jobs properly and the right way? Employees starting to sound... — read more 

The logo is a little science project once again conceived by Goeckeler and his wannabe SVP of Comms. Seriously nothing about Ukraine talented people leaving, compensation and stock down. What are they doing besides making pretty pics and weird... — read more 

Young talented people do not want to come here because WD is failing to get rid of archaic, outdated and unnecessary practices. In my opinion, WD is stuck in the past, and leadership is doing nothing to change that. Isn’t it high time for change... — read more 

I have sent resignation email to my boss almost 2 weeks ago. My boss just had a simple chat with me to show he is acknowledged. He might try to be polite to say he will see if can get a counter offer. Since then we have no interaction at all, no... — read more 

I feel like we should have some sort of events to appreciate the employees. I’ve been invited to other company appreciation events within the last couple months and it has me wondering why are we not having anything especially now that we have to... — read more 

There are too many useless managers here. Bad ratio of managers to employees. Anyone else finding this very frustrating?