Can NetApp stamp out the politics? - Anonymous employee NetApp Employee Review

4.0
18 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Very collaborate, positive and team oriented culture. Sales & support drive high levels of customer loyalty. Can do attitude permeates when the organization gets focused. Good benefits with volunteering encouraged and good 401k matching program. Smart people throughout the company.

Cons

Politics has entered into the culture at NetApp and not in a good way in recent years and it has hurt internal decision making which used to be a strength. Specially prevalent in the TD community unfortunately. Still very engineering led and have repeatedly missed important market trends because of it, so playing catch up versus leading in a lot (most?) areas.

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Pros

NetApp is a prestigious company, working for this company will be a great resume boost if you cannot break into top fortune 500 companies. Relatively easy to get into NetApp. Competitive pay.

Cons

Frequent layoffs. Understaffed which could equate to higher expected output.

3.0
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Pros

- Not the worst pay around - Opportunity for advancement if you get the right management - Good financial benefits (ESPP, 401k options, mega backdoor Roth) - The one thing GK is good at is driving up the company stock price. Hope you got yourself some RSUs

Cons

- NetApp hasn't made a new product in 10 years, so you'll be hard pressed to find development work that isn't directly tied to supporting what was built before then. - Very little innovation other than weekend-project-level AI tools - Health and dental benefits are not great - Upper management is completely detached from reality

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