Middle management out of touch, overly political - smacks of Sun in 2005. - Anonymous employee NetApp Employee Review

1.0
2 Jun 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great work life balance (although many, many, many people take advantage of it) Work from home is okay, by manager. Paychecks don't bounce - yet.

Cons

POLITICAL, POLITICAL, POLITICAL - Marketing morale is awful, Alliance Management is bleeding people. Middle management (from Group/1st line and up to VP) is clueless about the dissatisfaction and therefore can't fix it. No room for individual growth. Mentoring program is a joke. TOXIC work environment. Only reason it's a GPTW incumbent is because there's an entire HR department dedicated to it - and yearly bonuses are tied to it. Incent people with $ and they'll rate ya, why not?

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18 Jun 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

Good work life balance (in my team)

Cons

Leadership is bad, stay away!

3.0
26 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Amongst the top companies in the data storage industry = company stability.

Cons

If you'd ask me a year or 2 ago, I would have given the company 5 stars. But, as with most tech companies now, they've started to follow the trend of return to office, regardless of logic. There's little to no room for exceptions and the company would rather sacrifice productivity regardless if they know the hardships for people living in metros (one way commute to the NY or SJC office can take 2 hours one way!) - that and there's no commuter benefits. You have to pay out of pocket and live in fear of not receiving your bonus if you miss the "thrive together" quarterly requirements.

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