Western Digital Employee Reviews about "flexible working hours"

Pros

has a flexible working hour

Cons

project management is pretty confusing

Pros

Flexible working hours Great talent Good pay Great food

Cons

Nothing major on cons. Need to change the style of running the business.

Pros

Appreciation Learning Management New technology Flexible working hours

Cons

Work pressure No work life balance

Pros

- Managing system is good - Great opportunity to learn a lot - Flexible working hours - Colleagues are helpful across different departments

Cons

- A little delay in keeping up with the new technology trend - Too many branched out sub departments in the engineering team

Pros

Flexible working hour and payment is relatively good.

Cons

It is frustrated that you cannot focus on your work . The reason is, full of office politics, people tend to monitor and blame each others. The purpose is just to show up their own value for job security. 2. It is difficult for talent to empower career, little chance to transfer to other department.

Pros

-Unlimited vacation/off time (no PTO counted against you or tracked in the system), if you have an accommodating manager. -flexible working hours (depending on the department) and your place in the food chain -depending on the department your coworkers MIGHT be nice, knowledgable and in some cases both

Cons

Note that I become a WD employee through its acquisition of SanDisk, I would have never accepted a job offer to work for WD if it were my choice. WD is a cheap company. Compensation at WD is 10-30% below market median for engineers in Silicon valley. This is because the company is a bottom feeder, i.e. it doesn't attract the brightest and the sharpest, and neither did it need to do so running the rusty legacy HDD business. However, Sandisk is relatively a high-tech company that was one of the targets of talent in the area before the acquisition. Post this doomed acquisition, an increasing number of talented engineers have left and are leaving the company. Some high level folks are just waiting to get their package and open those "parachutes" Company has more than $15B debt. What incentives have you given your employees to offset the risk of your gamble? Leadership at WD doesn't have the technical smarts to run a chip company that thrives on Moore's law. The CEO is an accountant(?).They cannot comprehend the heavy R&D cost required to shrink things by 1nm or a couple of atoms, all they know is adding more plates to an HDD (aka spinning rust). I don't see a bright future, especially given the strong competition now that's already ahead. Terrible benefits, the health benefits are worse than those offered to an average college student. Super high-deductible plans, high premiums, in fact WD health insurance is about the same as getting Obamacare on your own. There are no perks, well maybe the free cheap coffee WD CEO is so proud of. (yes until recently WD didn't even provide free coffee to their employees). Bonus/RSU's suck. There is no retention package post acquisition, instead they reduce the benefits. The equality prices may rise short term given the higher margins of SanDisk compared to the spinning rust business, but it will drop faster than a rock once the high winds of competition will start to shake this rotten structure. finally the name "Western Digital" just sounds dumb!!! Who wants to say they work for "Western Digital" ? If you are ambitious, young, talented (especially NCGs from top university with advanced degree) this place is not for you.

Pros

- Self dependent in terms of educating oneself - Free to invent and get rewarded - Flexible working hours - Opportunity to take on projects overseas where the masters in the field are at arms length for training - Top management have good visions for the future and is realizing it.

Cons

- Poor management in terms of no support on ideas and years of service based promotion. (Commented based on experience in WD) - Poor newbie training as in poor guidance during probation period and lack of knowledge in senior colleagues who shows no initiative to learn due to everyday "firefighting" leading to wrongly answered or ignored questions. Also poor knowledge sharing between experienced and newbie (Commented based on experience in WD) - Poor sense of time in managers going against flexible working hours leading to a sense of inefficiency which is caused by either poorly educated subordinates or lack of employees. (Commented based on experience in WD) - Poorly rewarded employees due to wrong judgement of upper management in companies' direction and current financial status. (Commented based on experience in WD) - Bad work life balance. The term "Go back on time" does not apply due to the job not done today piles up for the next day. This is what management failed to understand as they do not undertake bottom level troubleshooting issues. (Commented based on 4 years of experience)

Pros

Flexible working hours Very good work life balance People are really helpful

Cons

Nothing as of now , things are really good at WD.

Pros

flexible working hour and can work from home

Cons

under reorganization, company not stable

Pros

Great place to work. Value for smart work.

Cons

No cons.Enjoy the environment. Flexible working hours