HGST Reviews

Current Employee – been working at HGST

Pros – friendly people
competitive salaries
ok work-life balance

Cons – lots of work
lack of communication since the company is so big
some politics

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at HGST full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – From a business perspective, they have very good people, transparent management style, and have a strategy, not just tactics. From a benefits perspective, San Jose employees have access to free on-site CrossFit classes, good cafeteria (but a little expensive), and decent bonus plan when the company hits its targets.

Cons – long-time employees overlooked for advancement opportunities,

Advice to Senior Management – new blood is great, but don't overlook recognizing your long-time work horses.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at HGST full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good work environment, excellent people, good drive to be the best

Cons – Small growth in regular compensation and growing dependence on bonuses. Also, company is becoming too invested on reusing or making marginal improvements to old technology in current products at the expense of developing new technologies to face future challenges and ensure long term growth

Advice to Senior Management – Watch the future, keep an eye on emerging challenger technologies

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at HGST full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Lots of internal opportunity to worldwide，Still keep lots of IBM cultures... and most of people is easy to co-work.

Cons – it is too big， lots of political things

Advice to Senior Management – Be fair and open minded to all staff， to lead the team but not work with work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at HGST full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – 1) Due to more than 2/3 and almost dev sites and mfg sites were ex-IBM SSD (Hitachi acquired IBM SSD's HDD business since 2003), basically it still has IBM culture, one of keys is to respect individual. As long as you can contribute, no matter where you come from, you will be respected.
2) Multi-cutures and harmony working environment.

Cons – Sometimes commonality not so satsifactory due to two dev sites although majority of the items are commonized.

Advice to Senior Management – More efforts on HDD robustness in design to maintain the Quality leadership.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company