Seagate Technology RnD Engineer reviews

Despite many advantages of working in Seagate and the fact that I recognize that most of people are great here, I have personally got so many bad experiences that has pushed me to leave the company in a bad mental health situation. The reasons are: - I have got badly harassed from an employee since the beginning. The reason, he was a "career-stagnated" employee who gets jealous when new employees join the company and start to "shine". Thus, these new employees might get promotion before the "failing and stagnated" employee, then that employee will harass and make bullying to the new starts. Personally, I have got harassed during 2 years, until I ended up in burn out and depression. - The harassment has been in many ways, trying to exclude from meetings and projects, verbally violent, blaming, physically violent as well (once thought I was going to get punched in the office) and has also sabotaged my work (personally once this employee has "probably" manually scratched my experiments/devices in order to make them un-usable and then needed to scrap my work). - In addition, all the time felt that person stand behind my screen looking at what I am doing and trying to continuously "dirtily" compete by copying my ideas, doing things in parallel instead of collaborating in order to "win the competition" (which does not really exist) and hiding information to the others or create fake data and results when not getting the right data to compete. - 80% of the time spent dealing with harassment and defending myself since the manager never solved the issue, 20% of the time spent doing engineering jobs. -- Personally, I have seen new starters, smart people, come to Seagate with a brilliant future, and their careers got completely pushed out by this person who just sneaks in their projects and violently pushes them out. - My manager had many chances to solve the issue since I communicated to him many times, however his actions were really vague. And most of the times he was bringing back the issue by, instead of separating me from that problematic employee, bringing him once and once again to the projects where I was working on. - My manager, despite the severe harassment issues, always discouraged me to report the issue to HR. I asked him several time to report to HR, but never wanted and came with sentences like "if you report to HR this will have bad consequences and blablabla...". - This makes me thing my manager might be more worried that everyone could be aware there is a problem in his team rather than really taking care that employees work effectively and they do not harass each other. - Another bad experience in Seagate, that is a minor reason for leaving but also important, is that in 8 months I haven't basically got any motivating work to do. Just got projects without any real reason "to be" or any utility which just got cancelled weeks later. This contributes also to the employee to feel meaningless in the company and pushes employees to leave. -- This is also a reason why Seagate can stagnate your career if you fall on a "nothing to do" blackhole.

Salary is not very competitive after the pound drop. Lot of people do not do their part and just carry on without any motivation to improve.