Europe layoffs were done step by step within the last 2 years nearly each quarter. Therefore, anyone got hardly aware about how many guys were laid off. PR + social media "disappeared" overnight from one of the European offices. We are expecting next... — read more 

What I don't understand is why WD continues to flog the "green, purple and blue garbage" (HDD) when it should be pushing the SSD out front, thereby offering it as a viable alternative. What was the point of the merger with HGST and the acquisition of... — read more 

Any updates gentlemen?

"Milligan said WD has been scaling down HDD capacity on a brick-and-mortar and head-count basis to react to the decline in the HDD market. He said WD had taken out 20% of its facilities and 25% of its head count during the last two years. Milligan... — read more 

The prediction is that HDD in all portables will reach EOL this year; HDD life in all PCs will end by next year. Well, HDD as main stream in data centers or clouds could survive a little bit longer, let's guess, say three years or sooner! So for the... — read more 

I wasted an hour to listen WD earning call today. Milligan made clear that more layoff is planned. From what he said, at least 10% is planned. Anyone has more info?

http://www.humanresourcesonline.net/seagate-western-digital-cut-jobs-malaysia/ July 22, 2016: "New Straits Times also reported that Western Digital Corp (WD) is expected to lay off 400 Malaysian staff and 800 foreign workers from its Penang... — read more 

Before WD laid me off, they had me take courses for success at WD. My favorites were: Intro to Posturing Buzz Words for Business Flying Under the Radar Public Speaking: Good but not Too Good Advanced Posturing: Social Media Raking It In!: Basics of... — read more 

Nim boonliang + Esther lim, company scum, WD Singapore must investigate for their lost.

Another 6,500 to be layed off at Seagate by end of financial year 2017. This brings the total to over 8000. There Will be more at WDC and it will be in the thousands.

ahh, his deal of layoff should be what we all aim for. LOL

Officer was on site for some reason, seems to be a mix of new and old timers. Glad it wasn't me.

HGST HGST HGST work work work silence silence silence still here still here still here work work work silence silence silence SanDisk SanDisk SanDisk ??? ??? ???

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/02/wdc_cuts_500/

The company is hoping that no one would apply for the position that they have posted, and if someone does, they will find a way to declare him/her unqualified. These ads are part of the "labor certification" process to obtain an #H1B visa (work visa)... — read more 

https://twitter.com/TheLayoff/status/738565627288244229

Are these "real" job postings, that the company intends to hire and fill up? Is there any hiring freeze ? Can any former recruiter at any company shed light on these contradictions ? I have always been intrigued by companies posting many jobs on... — read more 

I am bumping this thread up - trying to educate non WD folks here This is worth a repost (from : @He9ePpy-hgi ), I am not the author but it's the best summary of what's going on at WD that I've seen so far... WD Irvine primarily focuses on hard... — read more 

And here we go again, and it really sucks when you have a spineless manager. At the the last layoff "I haven't heard anything about a layoff". 10 minutes later he disappears and other managers walk his employees out.

Anyone reading Seagate's layoff page? Very interesting...Everyone either hates it there or can't wait to be let go.

A friend of mine has some openings for an Applications Engineer and a Technical Marketing Manager in Orange County with backgrounds in memory and storage. He would especially welcome inquiries from HDD engineers from WD Irvine who were caught in the... — read more 

Is this true about SanDisk Nand? SanDisk is even further behind all five of its competitors in the NAND market. The problem for SanDisk is that they and their fab partner, Toshiba, are behind all of their major competitors in this technology. The... — read more 

Does anyone know if there are more layoffs planned for 2016? Trying to buy a house but I need to know if there are more layoffs this year.

Word has it that WD Singapore will close by end of Sep 2016. It was formerly a HOYA company bought over by WD in 2011 to acquire the laptop HDD know how after getting very little inroads to small form HDD. Previously, it bought 2.5 media from HOYA... — read more 

WD has been making poor investment choices ever since 2007. Silicon Systems - total flop, where did their products go? lol Skyera - also a flop in my opinion HGST - was good, especially enterprise hdd, but ssd is doing well, but not for long. Without... — read more 

Rough % or #s will do. If you know the group name list them! WD SJ1: - WD SJ2: - WD Fremont: - WD Irvine: - WD International: - HGST Great Oaks: - HGST YB: - HGST International: -

How can hard drives compete w/SSD, except for data back-up? The SanDisk/Toshiba joint venture is building factory to produce 3D NAND.

This is worth a repost (from : @He9ePpy-hgi ), I am not the author but it's the best summary of what's going on at WD that I've seen so far... WD Irvine primarily focuses on hard drives for desktop and laptop computers. Fewer laptops and destops use... — read more 

I spent 9 years with WD (between 2004 and 2013) but left voluntarily to continue development of my side-business (InternationalTestInstruments.com), in which I develop high-speed serial protocol analysis for USB 2.0, 3.0 and PCI Express. I have sold... — read more