When you lay off all the older workers who have knowledge and experience and replace them with wet behind the ears millennials who have no desire to stay at the same company once they have learned all they can, what do you expect will happen to the... — read more 

Heard rumor that if we can not launch HAMR by end of this year. then the team will be affected by layoff. Any people heard similar rumor? Hope that's not true.

Heard there were going to be layoffs this week. Can anyone confirm?

So far, it seems that no one is backing down on the US China trade war. If things continue on this path, is there any chance that parts and/or drive shipments in and out of China will be affected? Yeah, I know Seagate is an "Irish" company and... — read more 

I worked at Seagate 28 years and it had it's ups and downs as any industry does when it has such a rapid turnover of products due to their short production times. Overall, I think the quality of people I worked with was exceptional, the morale was... — read more 

Dothill lay off finalized. Announcement in August.

Curious if canteens are ISO 3103 complainant? Why not be proud of that? Big banner, put label on HDD drive. Seagate now ISO 3103 complainant! Sales increase here and in China greatly, UK as well. Not sure impact in US.

Needs to be investigated. It wouldn’t be the first for seagate.

The top level trying to "freeze" our hand from the keyboard. Are they scare for our feedback? Really meaningless survey.

The cafeteria at the normandale facility is a working model and good representation of the seagate management plan.

Seagate will pay 1.2B as part of the Bain consortium to acquire toshiba’s memory. This will reduce the cash balance to ~1.4B, back to where it was a year ago. Last year, seagate borrowed 1B debt and laid off employees/cut spending in order to... — read more 

In 1989 Seagate purchased Control Data at during this time they had five operational buildings in Oklahoma City. We built millions of hard drives, in fact one of the very first clean rooms was built here in Oklahoma City. Over the next few decades... — read more 

All support and srs is being outsourced per email received tonight...

Since IT was let go, as well as OM/AM and now they will let go call center, the people left behind will be minimal.. my comom sense tells me they will shift these jobs to another location.. anyone has info on this?

Time and time again I see a very good company with a very poor management strategy: Cut the bottom line. But how far to cut? .... Just keep cutting until something breaks. How smart is this? As a long time employee and technical contributor, I feel... — read more 

Follow lay off in July. DH will be scaled down to 28 employees.

The OKC location is set for sell if it's not already sold and the whole call center will be outsourced to a 3rd party company located in Dallas. The management is still lying about it and telling people that the moving boxes they are distributing are... — read more 

Can we just cut the dividend already? Maybe just maybe we could get rid of some of our debt if the unrealistically high dividend was brought down to more realistic heights. As it stands, none of us will see a raise or a promotion for the next decade... — read more 

Most employees are very unhappy here. No raises or promotions for anyone ever is pretty demoralizing. I've been at the company 5+years and I don't know a single employee who has been promoted during that time. Seagate has become a very poor company... — read more 

Heard SRC Penang only will be there for sometime till the migration complete and the servers moving to AWS. Then after SRC will be eliminated following with Shugart? Anyone heard about this and by when management planning to execute this?

Heard rumors that they are going out of business.

If the Glassdoor ratings of Seagate are to be believed, workers do not like working there. I'm a younger (20 something) programmer looking for work. I used to think Seagate was a cool place to work. Now all I read is RIFs, layoffs, clueless... — read more 

They are slowly losing business. Not worth holding it.

I saw on Fox and Friends that Bill Watkins is coming back to Seagate, in a bold power play to stymie enemies and amaze shareholders. Don't know what the response from me and other employees will be. Depends on if we go back to building spinnie drives... — read more 

Here is an interesting article on the 2 new drive concepts for the coming year https://www.barrons.com/articles/western-digital-vs-seagate-battle-royale-of-hamr-against-mamr-1522254361

Like Watching Rome Fall One only has to read a sad review like this one to crystallize your purpose: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Seagate-Technology-RVW18522428.htm After reading this, there are three options: 1) Do nothing... — read more 

Anyone know when the next layoff is going to be? Awhile back on this site, someone mentioned May or June. Anyone else hearing about upcoming layoffs?

How pathetic is it that Seagate actually puts in the effort to post on this site in it's own favor posing as happy employees. What are they freaked out about? Must be a lot of truth on this site for them to actively promote it's own propaganda.

Should be a huge cut to R&D come June. Hamer shipping, nothing else in the works for new development. Should save the company a ton of money to give out to the shareholders. A lot less overhead as we produce current product lines until the end.

Just when I was hoping for early retirement, I'm told Seagate can't afford to lay anyone off right now because they can't make drive fast enough to keep-up with demand. This trend is expected for at least the next couple of quarters. Guess I'll just... — read more 

I saw on Fox and Friends that Bill Watkins is coming back to Seagate, in a bold power play to stymie enemies and amaze shareholders. Don't know what the response from me and other employees will be. Depends on if we go back to building spinnie drives... — read more 

When I was talking to VP he hinted dismantling DH or downsizing or even selling after downsizing. Procedure would start as soon as April. It seems huge layoff is inevitable in the near future.

Is it instability? Bitterness? Poor management? Can't be poor management. Jenga has excellent management. Spinny drive = stay alive = workforce don't thrive = dat ain't no jive. Or, in poem form: Spinny drive stay alive Workforce don't thrive Dat... — read more 

Congrats to those who believe in storage over SSD.

Any update on this? I heard about 6% cut April June quarter. DH will lose 20% employees.

Check out https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Seagate-Technology-RVW19338302.htm Seagate is a sinking ship (spinny drives are so Last Decade). Read the writing on the webpage. Get the fcuck out now. Or stay, and get HAMRed (get it?)

Going to major surgery for lot of divisions. DH will be eliminated except some service related.

Any updates over there? What are the big themes nowadays...

Will there be any layoffs in Cupertino IT in the future? I heard that the folks remaining there are some of the most talented, brightest, and hard working people.