Strong products with no direction - Member Of Technical Staff NetApp Employee Review

3.0
Dec 17, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Strong legacy products Decent work life balance Brilliant engineers with long tenure. Tough engineering challenges.

Cons

Tons of tech debt. Vacation days are strictly tenure based starting at 15 days. With forced vacation twice a year during company shutdown. Executive management tries too hard to sway with the wind and chase industry trends, rather than believe in their own products.

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5.0
Jun 18, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good work life balance (in my team)

Cons

Leadership is bad, stay away!

3.0
Jun 9, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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