Thread regarding Western Digital Corp. layoffs

Any layoff rumors?

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@891 it won't happen mindset until it does

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Post ID: @8c7+1jwj74rbt

@5ky in 2010 a 3TB hard drive cost more than $235 for an enterprise HDD. Your math is whack.

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Post ID: @891+1jwj74rbt

@81y if so, could state action taken to, in part, to underpin forward guidance

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Post ID: @87t+1jwj74rbt

@7y0 july 28 it is

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Post ID: @81y+1jwj74rbt

if one applies a tool to provide the answer they seek, is that an objective rating

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Post ID: @80q+1jwj74rbt

nudging 55+ no surprise, make it a good package, if there is one.

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Post ID: @80p+1jwj74rbt

@7y1 the evaluations were totally random with no way to see why you received the rating you were assigned. No metrics just a two letter rating.

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Post ID: @7z7+1jwj74rbt

there were performance evaluation recently. and this time evaluation was relative. Anyone in bottom 7 percent might be in trouble

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Post ID: @7y1+1jwj74rbt

What I heard is this. There will be VSP package for 55+ before quarter end.

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Post ID: @7y0+1jwj74rbt

@5m8 we’re listening: anyone with any time here understands how it works

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Post ID: @5vm+1jwj74rbt

@5qv as you know it is budget driven, so and hiring and compensation freezes are a tool, and so are layoffs

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Post ID: @5vk+1jwj74rbt

No - but there is a hiring freeze. Not sure when it began (a fewish months ago) but really hope it ends soon.

Currently 10/12 months through my initial contract and hoping for a permanent position. Hiring freeze is casting doubts on that. Yikes.

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Post ID: @5qv+1jwj74rbt

If you know you know. Don’t listen to the trolls here. “Ours goes to 11.” —SpinalTap

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Post ID: @5m8+1jwj74rbt

@4s9
2010 650 million HDD/year
2019 300 million HDD/year
2024 122 million

waiting 5 years for HAMR prices to go down?

The cost of NAND has been going down a lot, while HDD $/TB is almost flat.

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Post ID: @5ky+1jwj74rbt

@4s9 or flash costs fall and eat share

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Post ID: @526+1jwj74rbt

@4s9 took the MAMR detour

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Post ID: @4xp+1jwj74rbt

WD is capable to tweak PMR at least for five years and wait for HAMR cost down.

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Post ID: @4s9+1jwj74rbt

AI vs FW developers

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Post ID: @339+1jwj74rbt

@2hh+1jwj74rbt we know WD went the MAMR path and coming back from that

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Post ID: @2n0+1jwj74rbt

@2fs you're not seriously suggesting cloning Seagate's latest technology deliverable is the only ad tech under development at WDC? If so, WDC will have to wait and see what Seagate delivers next.

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Post ID: @2hh+1jwj74rbt

What should all the engineers work on, who don't yet work on HAMR?

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Post ID: @2fs+1jwj74rbt

do you need to ask, just look at the history

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Post ID: @2ck+1jwj74rbt

@1wc It sounds like you have a manipulative manager. Do you really want to work for them?

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Post ID: @23b+1jwj74rbt

move to reshape the workforce for AI, let's see Tend to move slow here

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Post ID: @1yx+1jwj74rbt

@1wc+1jwj74rbt. shifts in behavior are tells, so keep paying attention

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Post ID: @1xb+1jwj74rbt

@166 likely yes. I sensed it. My manager's behavior suddenly changed against me, starting Jan this year. Then suddenly he again became normal to me in early May . He in-fact provoked me couple of times so that I do something unacceptable. Interesting to see if my sense was correct or not .

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Post ID: @1wc+1jwj74rbt

fire up AI

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Post ID: @1gn+1jwj74rbt

gonna be a ride

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Post ID: @1d9+1jwj74rbt

so much for optimism

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Post ID: @18b+1jwj74rbt

Hiring freeze coming. Likely reorgs with looming cuts. WD is the new Seagate

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Post ID: @166+1jwj74rbt

rumors, like dreams, can come true

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Post ID: @y8+1jwj74rbt

look at our history over, it's when

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Post ID: @g9+1jwj74rbt

@OP I think there will be some re-orgs coming up

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