If the company has to do well, design centres need to go. What is the point of two client design centres when the market is disappearing. SKDC and SSDC are both inefficient, cant get a good product out. The leadership is bad, the guy on the top is pretty useless, doesn't open his mouth at all. Not many other leaders too. TCO also needs to go, and LCO has too many old guys. Both also need a lot of trimming. There was some trimming expected in September, doesn't look like anything is happening now. Factories getting the brunt.
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Guy just look at the Samsung suicide with the Note 7. Did Steve really trust SKDC?? lol
competition is good for company. all design centres remain on toes and work hard. It's better to keep a diverse workforce
@Jq7DL5g: Both SSDC and SKDC are now under the same boss/management...they already knew it and plan it carefully....just need some times to activate the plan...
I was a seagate empoyee a long time ago (since Jan 2009). Believe it or not there is life after Seagate and it can be a great professional life without having to constantly worry about layoffs and all the SeaSlave misery. Keep up your technical skills; stop worrying and wasting your time on things you cannot control. Focus on the things you can control. YOUR SKILLS are number one focus. And start looking at growing industries.. Automobile industry and related fields are growing and requiring highly skilled people. Software, test hardware, and innovative low cost solutions as an example of an industry needing highly skilled people. Aerospace industry needing highly skilled people. FOCUS ON YOUR SELF NOT ON SOME A--holeS>
Technically there is only one enterprise design group and 2 physical building sites. LCO and SHK. The management is cross site integrated. Look for more cross site integration and reductions around overlap. The physical facilities will probably both remain open for a while longer because moving physical assets is expensive and the buildings might cost less just to leave as is for now. I would expect a lot more physical asset transfers to be initiated and happening if a site close was impending. I do expect further significant reduction engineering and management personnel with reduced teams of engineers at both site reporting to a single manager at one or the other site. For site closure, probably it's in the cars within a few years though. Based on assigned products it's pretty obvious LCO is favored for now.
Only 3.5 inch near line cloud drive design center should survive. Others should go away.
Good post