Is WD a good company to work for?

WD has an overall rating of 3.7 out of 5, based on over 5,002 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 69% of employees would recommend working at WD to a friend and 63% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about WD have been left by employees working as Intern , Intern - Hourly and Test Engineer .

Does WD pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, WD employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.4 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at WD. This rating has improved by 3% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at WD?

69% of WD employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated WD 3.9 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.7 for culture and values and 3.5 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at WD?

Staff Engineer (216) , Senior Engineer (180) , Principal Engineer (152) , Engineer (151) , Software Engineer (111) , Firmware Engineer (107) , Senior Software Engineer (80) , Intern (79) , Technologist (64) , Director (51) , Senior Manager (49) , Test Engineer (44) , Manager (43) , Senior Firmware Engineer (36) , Internship (34)

What are the pros of working at WD according to real employee reviews?

"Very flexible and good work/life balance." ((in 359 reviews)); "people were great and fun to work with" ((in 294 reviews)); "Good culture as there are a lot of people coming from diversed background and ethnic" ((in 233 reviews)); "good benefit and not many change every year" ((in 201 reviews)); "Work culture is good and awesome." ((in 135 reviews))

What are the cons of working at WD according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management (mostly manage up)" ((in 207 reviews)); "Low salary and not easy to get there" ((in 140 reviews)); "Poor upper management." ((in 49 reviews)); "Poor Management and leadership style" ((in 33 reviews)); "Long hours and not allow to sit" ((in 32 reviews))

What are employees saying about WD layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about WD layoffs and their outlook for job security at WD in 2026.

What are the top reviewed WD locations?

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WD reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(782 total reviews)

Irving Tan

75% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

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3.9

Work/Life balance

3.8

Diversity & inclusion

3.7

Culture & values

3.5

Career opportunities

3.4

Compensation and benefits

3.2

Senior management

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2.0

Dec 5, 2018

SDR position not all they say it is.

Sales development representative

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Salary was descent for position in a competitive market.

Cons

Management was awful. Morale was a problem. Stuck in cube land. Training was provided but not much development beyond the initial onboarding which was all over the place and not well structured. No one feels the need to excel because the commission is so little. Not paid for anything for closed deals. Location is pretty far from most people that will want to work this job. Commute is long for most. Not worth the drive unless you live close.

4.0

Nov 10, 2018

Good place for self learners, fresh grads and late career people

Software/firmware engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Laid back work environment, not that much fast paced. The design (whether architecture, FW source code, systems design, etc) is pretty much open to anyone working on the project. Therefore its a great place for fresh grads and/or self learners to get in and learn new technologies. Also great place for people on VISA as most of the people around including managers are on the same boat and hence will give you a lot of flexibility (people even go to India for more than a month and partially work from home). Also lot of people work remotely and that option is entertained.

Cons

Not a place for people in their mid career. Workplace politics exist as usual like any other company and hence it affects promotion/pay raises/bonus. Pay scale is not good at all compared to other places in the Silicon Valley. Bonuses have been going down consecutively for the last 2 years since SanDisk acquisition. Its a very legacy company and definitely still runs in the old school way. More red tapes get added everyday which really bottlenecks the real work.

1.0

Nov 6, 2018

'fake news'

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Easy technical job, decent base salary.

Cons

After acquiring Hitachi GST and San Disk, continuous 'reductions in force' left upper management from HGST and technical people from WD, mostly. Problem with this is HGST had strong technical people who would tell upper management what was technologically possible while WD had less strong technical people who were driven by upper management. This has been completely broken now. WD is a broken company with no vision or technical leadership resulting in nonsense technical work and, at best, misleading press releases. NAND pricing will not recover for at least a year and until then WD will continue to miss performance targets and more 'reductions in force' will result. Eventually shareholders will figure out the technical capabilities of the company has been hollowed out.

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