Western Digital boss most disliked tech CEO in survey
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October 9, 2023
David Goeckeler, CEO of Western Digital, has the highest disapproval ratings in a survey of tech bossess by social network company TeamBlind.
The Blind social network is formed of business professionals who register through their work email to comment anonymously on their work experience, without the threat of reprisals.
Blind asked 13,171 members of its network about 103 CEOs in August: “Do you approve or disapprove of the way your CEO is handling their job?” The CEOs were then ranked in terms of their approval and disapproval ratings. There were many storage and storage-related companies in the ratings list and we have picked them out below. Overall Jensen Huang of Nvidia was the most approved CEO while Western Digital’s David Goeckeler had the strongest disapproval rating. The average CEO approval rating was 32 percent.
Western Digital laid off 211 staff in the Bay Area in June this year and cut 60 jobs in Israel in May. Goeckeler’s compensation was $32 million in 2022 while the average Western Digital employee earned $108,524. He became CEO in May 2020. We have asked Western Digital if it has any comment about this survey.
