Seagate Technology Reviews

Pros

Solid long term performance. Great people to work with.

Cons

Could communicate with employees better. Needs more teamwork.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more creative.

Pros

High quality products.
Great people to work with.
Great committment to the environment and the communities they work in.
Company is committed to Six-sigma and provides plentiful data/information upon which to base decisions.
Highly competitive compensation and benefits.

Cons

Highly competitive industry puts more than average stress on being successful in every new product cycle.
Large company and upper management can sometimes lose sight of what it takes to be successful.

Advice to Senior Management

Since the reorganization of 2009, you are on the right track. The market is not cooperating but you need to continue to innovate and control costs and be ready for the next market upturn.

Pros

* Now ( after 3 years in another department) I have a great Manager and Supervisor
* great folks
* good benefits package

Cons

* ridiculous Bonus
* no raises at all, even the people that are just getting hired for a level bellow mine are making more
* Unfairness from other departments where instead of laying off ( for financial reasons)they fire people for unexplained means ( just because its cheaper that way)
* A lot of politics, almost impossible to grow if you are not friends with certain people

Advice to Senior Management

Please start being fair with people, and appreciating their efforts. if people are happy for sure they will work harder, but if they look around and see how much politics, people being unfairly fired and not feeling appreciated for sure they will see it as a burden being there. And do a terrible Job ( and this talk goes around the department)

Pros

If you are willing to learn, you can always find people willing to teach. There are too many to learn when you are a new comer.

Cons

Less bonus than many companies outside. It is famous by "No bonus due to not earning enough" and "Pay deduction due to economic depression"!

Pros

Flexible work hours, good vacation, very good health insurance, fair pay, informal dress

Cons

Insufficient staffing, so-so 401k, lousy raises - if any at all, limited advancement or sideways opportunities, good-old-boy management structure, pretty much any new idea from HR (like sliding the pay ranges down so that all future raises are screwed)

Advice to Senior Management

The people that work for you are professionals who would like to be heard and appreciated. Your personal ambitions are trumping teamwork, sharing of knowledge, and doing what's right for the employees and the company.

Pros

-good colleagues, manager and environment.

Cons

sometimes hard to dealing with co-worker in different department

Pros

Take care the whole family, parents, baby...at hometown.
Good experience on Factory and customer Failure analysis, issue hunting and solution

Cons

Design center's communication to factory is not opening, especially Singapore's design center, as several FA departments, the work assign of each dept. is not very clear, problems on management

Advice to Senior Management

Design center's communication to factory is not opening, especially Singapore's design center, as several FA departments, the work assign of each dept. is not very clear, problems on management

Pros

Good benefits package. Health and dental insurance.

Cons

Not too many challenging opportunities considering most manufacturing jobs are being sent abroad.

Advice to Senior Management

Give raises to long-standing employees and stop hiring so many temps without offering them full-time jobs, it comes off as being very cheap for the largest hard drive manufacturers.

Pros

Supportive upper management and competitive compensation are very evident here, which makes for a solid and strong environment. People are very willing to help one another out.

Cons

Seagate (like many other companies though), has a lot of politics that go on internally, and a lot of competition among entry-level individuals in advancing within.

Pros

Good salary and benefits. Work locations reasonable (although it gets _very_ cold in Minnesota). Interesting technical challenges and smart co-workers.

Cons

Management is typically focused on the current quarter's results. This is unavoidable in the current climate. However, this approach is lethal in the engineering area, leading to patching instead of progress.

Advice to Senior Management

(1) Much more pushback against product line proliferation, leading to feature creep paralysis in hardware and firmware designs.
(2) Really stupid for a high-tech company with a thriving research center to break up that center and disperse the researchers to the engineering centers where they focus on today's issues instead of tomorrow's solutions.