Western Digital

About Western Digital

Western Digital Corporation is an American multinational data-storage company headquartered in San Jose, California. Founded in 1970 in Santa Ana, California, as General Digital, the company is one of the largest storage manufacturers in the world alongside Seagate Technology and Kioxia, and is listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker WDC. Western Digital designs and manufactures hard-disk drives across consumer, surveillance, NAS, and enterprise capacity-and-performance segments, alongside a broad portfolio of solid-state drives, embedded NAND, removable storage, and platforms targeted at client, gaming, creator, data-centre, and embedded customers. The company's brand portfolio includes WD, SanDisk, SanDisk Professional, WD_BLACK, and Ultrastar, with a separation of its flash and HDD businesses into independent public companies announced as part of a strategic separation. Western Digital India operates large engineering and operations centres in Bengaluru, with additional sites supporting product engineering, firmware, controller and ASIC design, customer engineering, validation, and corporate functions. Indian engineering teams contribute to HDD and SSD firmware, controller silicon and verification, system-level test, data-platform software, embedded NAND and flash systems, and the company's enterprise storage stacks. Indian fresher and early-career hiring at Western Digital typically targets firmware-engineer, software-engineer, ASIC and digital-design-engineer, validation-and-verification engineer, embedded-systems-engineer, and data-engineer roles, sourced through structured campus placements at Indian Institutes of Technology, NITs, and other engineering institutes.

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