Pros
I enjoyed the time I spent here and do not look upon going to Seagate as a bad decision or a mistake. The people I worked with for my strategic initiatives were GREAT! My benefits and salary were great, but Director level and below were paltry.
Cons
- CEO/COO not committed to marketing. 4 SVPs and EVPS cycled through managing marketing during 2 year period. This has significantly hurt the retail side of the business where Seagate HAD a chance of giving WD a run for the money. - Too many priorities which causes a lot of investment dollars to be spread too thin thereby minimizing projects and processes that scale and ultimately deliver an impact and return. - Layoffs average 1 each year for the past 8 years. Newer employees usually first to go, which still allows employees with longer tenure to continue to do things the same old way they have done things, which noticeably correlates to a lack of proactivity and initiative - Getting rid of poor performing employees (those that have been with Seagate a while) through perf improvement process a joke due to a rather paranoid stance from an HR and Legal in trying to minimize cost incurred by defending legal action. - Seagate employees have historically shared very sensitive strategic plans with WD. Problem still occurs to this day but not quite as bad as the past.
