As the title mentions, be careful not to get stuck here. With certain positions, your technical expertise will become hard disk drives (HDDs). The problem with that is that you will learn company specific tools that pretty much NO other company will care about. So what if you are an expert in internal tools? Little to none of them are used elsewhere. So be careful not to get stuck there, unless that is in fact what you enjoy doing.
Another major con is that there are layoffs that have been occurring roughly every 3 months over the last 2 years. Very demoralizing. Very few organized activities or employee incentives, so the morale is VERY poor. This may change in the future, but it's not happening anytime soon. These layoffs are primarily due to the integration of WD with SanDisk and HGST, which were purchased recently. Good business move, but it has really devastated the employees that are left
Cafeteria is just ok in quality, and VERY over priced. It's quite impressive really that they get away with it.
Pay is not competitive during quarters where WD doesn't pay out incentives above 100%, which happened a lot lately
Engineering day, an annual employee appreciation event, has been cancelled for the last 2 years. Apparently that can't be afforded, but multi-BILLION dollar purchases can be
