Is WD a good company to work for?

WD has an overall rating of 3.7 out of 5, based on over 5,001 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 (48) , 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 363 reviews)); "people were great and fun to work with" ((in 298 reviews)); "Good culture as there are a lot of people coming from diversed background and ethnic" ((in 227 reviews)); "good benefit and not many change every year" ((in 211 reviews)); "Work culture is good and awesome." ((in 134 reviews))

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

"Poor management (mostly manage up)" ((in 211 reviews)); "Low salary and not easy to get there" ((in 134 reviews)); "Constant restructuring and layoffs." ((in 79 reviews)); "Poor upper management." ((in 52 reviews)); "Poor Management and leadership style" ((in 33 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?

San Jose , Irvine , Milpitas , Fremont , Rochester , Longmont , Mountain View , Lake Forest , New York , Newark , San Francisco , Colorado Springs , Israel , Houston , Los Angeles , Salt Lake City , Boulder , Washington , Boston , Chandler , Austin , Orange , San Diego , Santa Clara , Atlanta , Long Beach , Seattle , Miami , Texas City , Santa Ana

WD reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(4,286 total reviews)

Irving Tan

75% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

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WD has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 4,286 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The WD employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

Reviews by job title

4K reviews

2.0

Jan 18, 2019

social justice indoctrination

Engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

easy work, excellent benefits, free lunch

Cons

endless social justice propaganda very distracting

3.0

Dec 7, 2018

Western

Electrical design engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

pay and bonus are respectable, especially if you can be at a non CA site, as some of the pay bubble that is CA salaries reflects outward.

Cons

more political than most companies. Key business, HDD, is receding, causing them to have excess talent, so layoffs of even highly talented people. Power and control are more strongly consolidating to Southern CA, and it's a blatant power grab

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.

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