WD reviews

At Western Digital, you get fair pay. But the workload is fair too. No much overtime work, typical 9-5, work life balance ok

This was my first job out of college. I have to say that HDD's are a very mature industry, which made it kind of hard to get my foot in the door and get jobs actually assigned to me. Why would they give me work when everyone who works here as been in the HDD industry for decades and can do everything faster/better than a new hire? The pay is not amazing, but I've gotten a lot of promotions and salary increases in the couple years I've worked here. I have a lot of friends who work significantly harder than me at other companies who don't get any recognition. WD recognizes hard work. Hard drives are endlessly interesting. They are a mature product and there isn't a ton of research/hands on stuff going on, but you could easily spend your whole life learning about a hard drive. It's endlessly complicated and requires skills from every engineering discipline. The Sandisk merger has kept WD healthy and the stock has been going up. WD's stock is very volatile, but that's a good thing with the ESPP since you get locked in to the lowest price the stock hits in each 6 month payout period over 2 years. So the stock plummetted to $35 a while back, but that's actually a good thing because now I'm selling at $90. Volatility is great for ESPP