Seagate Technology Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Seagate Technology full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Competitive salaries, good people to work with. Lots of good talent. Plenty to learn about storage. Working on latest hybrid drives.

Cons – NO chance for promotion above senior engineer.
Promoted too many people too fast many years ago, now promotions are rarely, if ever, handed out.

Advice to Senior Management – Promote those that deserve it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Seagate Technology full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Highly competent engineers with high working ethics. Supportive management that motivates engineer to growth.

Cons – High bureaucracy and politics impede effective action and innovation.

Former Employee – worked at Seagate Technology full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – -Excellent , Knowledgeable , Cooperative Colleagues
-Well established processes for operation and development
-Will get a chance to work with all the tools of the trade ( Lauterback Emulator, Lecroy/Xilinx protocol Analyzers, Perforce, Slickedit etc ) and learn industry standard storage protocols like SAS and SATA. ( PCIe too if you join SSD team )
- ESPP, 401k match, Health Care are good. Bonus is good during ( and only during) boom years.
-Good work Life Balance

Cons – -Very limited growth potential for new employees. You are looking at 4-5 years to get to the next level.
-Your immediate manager has very limited power and that shows when it comes to yearly reviews.Decisions regarding promotion taken at a higher level by people you might rarely interact.
-To get ahead you need to get "visibility". To get that you first need to be seen as good. But to be recognized as good you need to be in good projects. See where I am going with this !!!
-HDD business is always in a boom-bust cycle. One year you are making record profit margins. Next year you are talking about salary/ hiring freeze.
-I think the compensation ratio is not reflecting the actual reality.
-Weather is horrible during winter. But, summer and fall are nice.

Advice to Senior Management – Please recognize employees contributions more. Provide raises and promotions in a timely manner.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Seagate Technology full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good career growth good peer groups

Cons – Too much to do not much time

Advice to Senior Management – listen to your lower staff members

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Seagate Technology full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great people to work with

Cons – No compensation for the amount of work required.

Advice to Senior Management – Value the individual contributors that are doing the work with promotions, pay increases, and shares.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Seagate Technology full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good location and stable company.

Cons – The work culture is not very competitive and at times can be boring.

Advice to Senior Management – Get lean.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Seagate Technology

Pros – Paid good benefits to employee and great people to work with.

Cons – A little career advancement opportunities for personal growth.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Seagate Technology full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Seagate is the nicest relax place to work.

Cons – When there is no good, there is no OT.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Seagate Technology full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – no stress, stable, can do part time studies.

Cons – no growth, no career advancement opportunity, no stage to perform, no recognition.

Advice to Senior Management – stimulate more challenges in employees to screen for better candidate for promotion rather than base on seniority.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Seagate Technology full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Constantly improving itself in a dynamic industry where no stone is left un turned in pursuit of perfection at the nano scale.
A place for generating new ideas.

Cons – The products life cycle is short and highly competitive. The technology are inter disciplinary and ;earning curve is steep.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company