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Several years back, I did an internship at Western Digital. I was a software intern on a hardware team in testing working on a project that no one on the team was capable of doing. It quickly became obvious it was more appropriate for a contractor to build than an intern, and was even told as much, but they went with the intern route because it "required fewer signatures".

It was glaringly obvious that software was not part of the company's core competency. Worse, was that software was treated as a nuisance and afterthought to the hardware. No idea how today's Western Digital compares, but I generally steer clear of the company's products that rely on any non-trivial software.