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SanDisk

Acquired by WD

Is this your company?

No strategic direction, own a FAB and still manage to mess it up. - Staff Product Engineer SanDisk Employee Review

1.0
Dec 21, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good engineering and support staff. Salary OK, benefits average. Struggling to think of anything else positive.

Cons

The senior management of this company have no idea what they're doing. With shared ownership in a FAB, you have still managed to take the company nowhere, leaving a takeover by WD as the only alternative to closing down. You have layers of middle management that can barely cope, let alone manage. Unless you are of Indian ethnicity, forget working for this company, you will go nowhere due to the nepotism and favoritism exhibited by several management layers above you. Bought a true enterprise company (fusion-io) and tore the heart out of its enterprise sales force and then wondered why it failed to sell those enterprise products effectively. You are idiots. At a trade show in the summer, several times my colleagues and I heard delegates wandering past saying things like, "why are they here, they make USB drives." This sums it up, you're a consumer grade company with consumer grade products. The WD takeover is the best of a bad bunch of results, at least there won't be a slow painful death of the company that many fine people work for in return for very little acknowledgement.

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Pros

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Cons

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Jun 30, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Good culture and lots of younger folks working here that makes it fun. Rotation opportunities exist and make it possible to learn in many different teams.

Cons

There used to be excellent managers and directors who were able to mentor the teams and bring about good results. With all the attrition and lack of recognition it is not a fun place to work

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