Q&A With Seagate Technology Employees

These are stale answers. The company currently is driving to innovate with different data storage solutions with expansion at the edge and endpoint. As with any technology company, older more archaic parts of the business are shrinking, new emerging parts are growing.

The outlook is dim. I expect the company to shrink until somebody buys it.

It's one of only two relevant players in a dwindling, commodity technology.

Annually, minimal

Not very.

Once in my three years. 3 percent.

Be willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish the companies goals with no recognition

Move to Singapore!

Be way over qualified.

Fast

Like the military - hurry up and wait.

Very fast in some parts of the company

They already are...

Yes, as the industry shrinks and layoffs become more common

Good, but stagnant

Poor for entry level developers. Hard to increase salary for several reasons; bonuses are limited, raises are usually ~2% or less, promotions are handicapped by quotas

Not at all

Its not secure, I'm losing my job in March.

Depends on the day. Sometimes it's good, most of the time it's turning the crank

Hopeful that we'll get things on track as an organization.

Moderately

Weeks of boredom followed by a weekend of panic.

People willing to climb the management ladder to the executive level. If you are an engineer work hard and deliver, but your promotion level will top out well below the management tree

Politically savvy

At the first level good. There is no feedback beyond that.

I went 18 months without a single one on one with my manager

There are none unless the team organizes and pays for it itself.

Few and far in between.

Standard cubes for most employees, larger cubes with higher walls and doors for first and second level managers, hard wall offices for anyone above that.

Cubeville

I put in zero work because they laid me off.

many people work late night to cover other regions or weekends.

Hard - work / life balance isn't good

Depends on what you are working on. In many organizations weekend work is common but can be done remotely

Focus on delivering kinetic energy, not potential energy.

Overall, the culture is good but it's a big company and slow to make changes and that can be frustrating. There is a lot of the mindset of "we've always done it this way".

Clueless. Spent billions of dollars on technology we knew wouldn’t work and got blindsided by the competition. Now three years behind

Mosely is just starting to take over as CEO so it's hard to say right now. Luczo was overall good for HDD but made poor decisions for SSD

Based on merit and current position. Lower levels get promoted faster

I asked my manager this exact question and I did not receive an answer as to what metrics they use to make promotions.

unlimited

Seagate changed over to not tracking vacation, so there are no set vacation days. We still have company holidays but how much vacation each employee takes is up to the manager's discretion.

It was great for many years, right now its horrible because we are all losing our jobs.

Yes. It’s part of the culture

Yes = it is the company culture

Yes. The future of the company is not promising. The company is shrinking through layoffs and attrition

Younger talent is spending two years getting trained and leaving. Senior talent is leaving for better paying jobs in industries that are not shrinking. This is happening at an increasing rate.

There is a good onboarding program and new developers are treated well

Very supportive with a lot of training and mentoring

My team is excellent, works together well, but is overworked