I spent seven years at Western Digital, and I watched a chip company with an amazing amount of IP (basically everything except processor and memory) scuttle the chip business on the alter of the almighty hard drive. WD has seeded many successful companies in SoCal (Broadcom, QLogic, Emulex, Silicon Systems, Adaptec, JNI, more...) by letting go their talented engineers when management had failed yet again to follow in a market where they should have been leading. I'm sorry to have seen it happen yet again. Sounds like sour grapes, but it's really not; I'm just not surprised at this latest news. It's just another round of layoffs at WD, which isn't really anything new there. To any of the old guard still there -- you're a hardened lot, and I wish you luck in yet ANOTHER new direction set by the company. As for me, let's just say that in retrospect, WD was a great place to be from.
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I spent seven years at Western Digital, and I watched a chip company with an amazing amount of IP (basically everything except processor and memory) scuttle the chip business on the alter of the almighty hard drive. WD has seeded many successful companies in SoCal (Broadcom, QLogic, Emulex, Silicon Systems, Adaptec, JNI, more...) by letting go their talented engineers when management had failed yet again to follow in a market where they should have been leading. I'm sorry to have seen it happen yet again. Sounds like sour grapes, but it's really not; I'm just not surprised at this latest news. It's just another round of layoffs at WD, which isn't really anything new there. To any of the old guard still there -- you're a hardened lot, and I wish you luck in yet ANOTHER new direction set by the company. As for me, let's just say that in retrospect, WD was a great place to be from.