AI or copilot used for layoff ? How many folks are affected today. AI talk two weeks ago and suddenly layoffs announcement so not surprising...will AI replace future engineers? Make AI Great Again

The only ceo I know of who religiously reads comments here, gets mad and rants at his staff when he sees anything about him here.

We all know they love cheaper P1-P3's. ERP needs to be next to support an average salary decrease plan. Part of that plan is to ignore the 20% inflation over the last few years. It has been so convenient. Who would realize their spending power... — read more 

From the past 10 years, anything good the physicist doing for STX? And what is the reason he still here till now?

Strategy head axed due to differences with DM on doing business with China. Not everyone supports unethical criminal business.

Email sent out for new AI initiative for some groups self test and factory and servo and fw. When is the next round of layoffs planned ?

Are you going to answer it? You can be sure it’s not anonymous. I’m considering answering it honestly for the first time in about 10 years because it might increase my chance of getting a package

How about showing some Real Intelligence and start treating your employees as people not cattle? The people who actually do the work? The people who build and support the products? The people who allow you to keep paying the dividends to the... — read more 

Normally seagate will pay bonus in March/Sept. Anything about the March bonus?

Seagate just announced that they are buying Intevac for $119 million in cash. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250213031336/en/Seagate-Announces-Agreement-to-Acquire-Intevac How does Seagate have the cash to do this when they are struggling... — read more 

Please lay me off! Been waiting for my turn patiently, but nothing happens, beed the severance money to help with retirement :)

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Is Seagate inventing a new language I’m not smart enough to understand? Will it become a new acronym AIAM we can all put in our presentations to sound really really important so that only HDD insiders and cool people will know the plan?

Normally how do you handle the ESPP stocks, put it into the account or sell it immediately?

There are many indications that Drives and Systems may be split by location, SHK and LCO, dare to guess where each one ends up?

Looks like the folks that sold the illegal drives to Huawei are up to shenanigans... — read more 

Seagate better have a US production line plan ready to go because it’s coming.

Ravi Naik, Executive Vice President, Storage Services, will leave the company effective April 3, 2023. Seagate Wesbite Still Showing Ravi... — read more 

Local contractors with new super safe hard hats have started the process of finishing the interior of the new fab. Meanwhile raw human sewage is bubbling up out the floor with a smell that could gag a Trash Panda. Where is this nasty discharge... — read more 

Any thoughts on the Stargate announcement and the 10+ storage farms?

Not sure if this is very common in SG. My information about seagate employee is mainly from glassdoor. How about you? This site is anonymous. Last year during annual review, my boss told me he has done his best to strive for the benefits for all... — read more 

Last week, the insider trading course was assigned. Employees were taught to be "Ethical", "Lawful". "Don't trade on that day. Uncle Sam is carefully watching on all transactions of that day with his big a-s computer" What happened?

Rumors

Hope Jan 21 report is good. If not, an exercise is on the horizon

Any updates? I haven’t heard anything yet. Which doesn’t mean much because I’m not at the center of happenings.

Any word on who is affected (groups, divisions..etc) or we letting big D surprise us? Assume most will be US

And hoping I’ll be laid off soon. It seems to me that any other pasture would be greener now.

Seagate Value

DEI is going to quickly and rightly be regarded by our new federal government as a blatantly illegal quota scheme and a violation of civil rights. That's because it is discrimination and a violation of equal treatment. To have Seagate still... — read more 

In my opinion, the damage caused by both past and current leadership has reached a point where it's too much to fix. Bad decisions and weak leadership have left deep, lasting scars, some of which are beyond repair. I genuinely believe that the best... — read more 

Frostmeister is taking care of P1-P3 and in the process is discriminating against older employees. We are still 15 percent behind inflation. I don't know the data could be interpreted differently.

Now it can be delivered to one of the big customer. More good news will come

From calendar year 2025, all employee can only bring forward half of his unused leaves of previous calendar year to the next calendar year. By doing this, the cost to retrench one employee will drop, which enables General Frosty to RIF more people... — read more 

Any thoughts on direction of global fw org from fellow folks in lco and tco and ssdc ? Open anon discussion let your thoughts out.

When Clark Griswold's holiday bonus actually looks better then what you get every year from Seagate. I'm sure the executives are heartbroken the company can't afford it.

It is already in mass production ramp up?

those points are close to valueless. If I am not wrong, previously SG employee got S$300 at 10 years mark. With SPARK, this benefit is robbed.

Does it seem like the average team age has dropped dramatically lately? It used to hover around 30s and 40s, but now it feels like most teams are just a bunch of 20-somethings with one token older person. What happened? Is it layoffs or are the more... — read more 

Pay increases have no where near kept up with inflation over the past few years much less covered the pay freezes suffered due to the company's hard times. The wounds are still festering. Are they are gonna sweep those losses in pay under the rug?... — read more