Seagate Technology Employee Reviews about "upper management"

Pros

great technology and challenging work

Cons

upper management is real bad and is only in for themselves and too much politics

Pros

Great projects and challenges to work on

Cons

Too much politics and hard to really get upper and lower management aligned

Pros

Relaxed, communicative environment. Value placed in physical and mental health and work/life balance. Great intern program with fun events (free food, go karts, mini golf, etc) and info sessions that provides useful information about different sectors of the company.

Cons

Not the most inviting offices. Upper management seems to not be very knowledgeable at what happens at the ground level.

Pros

- Quality work - Great Learning - Good work opportunities - Flexible working hours - Friendly staff and local Indian management

Cons

- Highly political U. S. (SAS SSD) directors. They are only interested in cutting down Indian sites and people by projecting some fancy and convenient data analysis figures to the upper management. None of them are actually worried about the Product. - No visionary and solid SSD architecture team. They always evolve with the requirements even when there is no time to deliver product and blame engineers for their implementation to hide architectural shortcomings. - U.S. engineers working on SSD Firmware Development are immature, arrogant, rude and full of show offs only. They are good at fooling the management. - VPs are biased towards their community people and sites. - Absence of salary hike and annual bonus is an every year story. - Always a threat of U.S. people scrapping the quality work carried out by Indian engineers and rewriting the same with their so called strong and modular code. - Always a threat of layoffs and site closures.

Pros

Flexible hours, casual dress, 3 weeks vacation annually + separate sick time. Frequent updates from upper management through weekly video messaging and periodic company-wide updates on new technology and milestones met.

Cons

Internal communication is not the greatest. Often we don't know what's going on from department to department until someone asks you for an update on something that you've been completely left out of up to that moment. Pay is on the low end of average.

Pros

Very good team and location

Cons

Upper management and purchasing department inefficient processes

Pros

Work-life balance is excellent. Pay and variable comp are good-great depending on job grade. Exposure to semiconductor processing tools can be interesting & technically challenging. Coworkers & culture are great.

Cons

Wafer Equipment is staffed by great engineers handicapped by their management structure. Due to negative perception, micromanagement and, or misalignment of stated priorities vs job description and what is best for Seagate, turnover to other groups and outside the company in this group is high. Your success at the job is measured in metrics that you don't have direct control over. Upper management literally sleeps through the mandatory project reviews that are allegedly valued so highly. There is no disciplinary action or consequences for poorly performing technicians & shift placement is seniority based, not on merit. ~4 hours of mandatory, no value add meetings, every single week.

Pros

Benefits, Work Culture, Flexibility, Team Dynamics

Cons

Internal Politics Improper Project Management Bad vibes between upper management and the team

Pros

Formerly Dot Hill, the Cloud Systems group is doing some amazing work in storage tech. The people are phenomenally talented and intelligent. The middle management is excellent. This creates great work, keeps the pressure off for deadlines. Very worker friendly policies such as flexible times, working from home and unlimited PTO. Good benefits - 401k, bonuses. Restricted Stock and ESPP generates a lot of wealth quite fast.

Cons

* They got better as I left but product releases very crazy chaotic. * Seagate taking over Dot Hill did a lot of good things to the stock and benefits but really messed up the small company nature. * We survived for several years and rode out recessions without laying off anyone but Seagate came in and laid off beloved and veteran employees just for their bottom line. We went from family to anyone is replaceable in 1 year. * Open recs never get filled. Upper management knows that they can squeeze more out of engineers and force middle management to keep chugging along with what they get. I honestly feel bad for some of them. * It's tiring to play second fiddle to the drive department which is always ailing and doing poorly. The Cloud Systems group is profitable but has to bear layoff costs when the rest of the company struggles.

Pros

The company pay their staff well compared with similar companies in the storage industries. Good working environment with sound HR policies with comprehensive health care coverage including adoption assistance & higher education subsidies. Design engineering site in Minnesota, Colorado, California and even Singapore provide opportunities within org. Factory sites in Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia & China provide further opportunities for job growth beyond home ground if you are willing. Good expat incentives for Director & above only.

Cons

This is a vertically integrated company. It held an impressive portfolio of technologies and IPs. There were sufficient talent pools within the company to ensure it is always number one. However, the huge downside is management is too top heavy. Too many VPs, Exec Directors, Senior Directors & Directors making decisions focusing on their own turfs and poor execution of products led to losing it's number one position in recent years. Initial management changes implemented by Former but now CEO again Steve Luzos in 2004 was sound with sound long term strategies but ran by the same old veterans who get the company in trouble in the first place in 1990s. Morale is low with recent layoffs. Engineers (likely pay check to pay check) discouraged with across the board 10% wage cuts. Upper management more cuts but were cushioned by company's generous stock options and other bonuses.