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- otapnam
Im interning at Maxtor (Hard Drive company) and we just got bought out by rival Seagate
im not too worried right now about work, since im just an intern but i wonder what will happen to my bosses and coworkers.
I wonder what's going to happen to the maxtor brand. Will it just become another forgotten company like Quantum? (Coincidentally, we bought them out a few years ago)
There's all these things we've been working on, it just seems like its gonna goto waste since Seagate's branding is going to takeover in a few months
So whats your corporate stories?
- jox0
What happens to the brand can differ from time to time. My firm was bought by a big competitor a while ago and they aquired all employees except - ironcally- two interns. Don't worry though :) They got rid of the name of the firm and now it's just a dept within this firm.
- Crouwel0
you work at MAXTOR?
do you love your live?
cuz i am about to bomb that place.
WORST.HARDDRIVES. EVER!
sheesh..
- jevad0
hahahahah
- otapnam0
hey i dont make em !
shiet.
the last few generations have been better too.
- NegativeSpace0
I own 5 hard drives, they are all running extremely good, this is from 5 or 6 year old 40 gb's to brand new 300 gb sata.
Only problem I had was a 80 gb that wasnt working out of the box, luck of the draw, and they had a brand new one sent out to me within a day.
- MrDinky0
yeap all Maxtor HD sucks
i prefer WD
all the HD melt down has been with Maztor
btw, Lacie uses Maxtor
- JazX0
not true at all. Maxtors are good HD's. I have had multiple Maxtor HD's and they were fine and still work.
Seagate is a massive company
- MrDinky0
seagate's crystal reports got bought out by business objects while ago
- JazX0
hmmmm didn't know that Dinky
- fullerc0
I've had noting but problems with Maxtor!
The company I work for was bought out by a smaller company and they slowly been firing all our executives and firing their employees making us do all their work.
- spendogg0
Maxstore sukks - But Seagate is a client of ours and they make great products. They are an awesome company, cool people.
- CptYesterday0
What do you intern as?
They will prob loose the Maxtor name and downsize alot of the staff.(I too lost several Maxtor HD's, sucky)
- otapnam0
i intern in the marketing dept under the graphic designer there. we do most of the tradeshow and convention graphics and print as well as internal work. not the greatest job, but its got its plusses.
ive never really had problems with Maxtor drives in the past, i did lose 2 drives once when my power supply flipped out. I have a serial seagate that is giving me problems now though. go figure
- Momentum0
The company I work for just got bought by Fox and it's going to be the same as before except now I work for Fox and we get their benefits hehe
- cruz_azul0
Seagate piece of chet , I bought an external HD that was 240 GB and lasted me a month , called tech support and they said "Check out our website" , now its a nice paper weight
- uberdesigner0
the name maxtor will go away, everyone will be laid off, and people will snicker at the name maxtor on your resume