Pros
Great co-workers who all had a high level of quality and passion for all products and in everything they did. Created life-long friends and networking relationships.
Kontras
High upper management was very bad in/lacked any clear communication to those below them. Never really gained any sense that they cared about the employees. Looking back I see the signs in the company that foreshadowed WD's decision to cut nearly 95% of the QA department. How they plan on maintaining any real sense of quality in their current and future products is beyond me. With the merger with HGST I can see WD being swallowed up/completely integrated into HGST itself with WD only remaining in name. (This is just my opinion and not based on any inside info.) Work/Life Balance was very weak. I put myself in 110% (long hours during the week, coming in on Saturdays) yet none of that mattered. Looking back and knowing now what I know I would not have wasted my time and life to the extent that I did.