Good, but not great place to work - Anonymous employee NetApp Employee Review

4.0
Mar 23, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Smart, fun people. Interesting technical problems. Consistently profitable company. Reasonable benefits. Executives who are smart and communicate well about their vision for the company.

Cons

Less generous vacation policy than other tech companies. Combined with mandatory time off (i.e., use your vacation days or take time without pay) at Xmas and July 4th, you have very little discretionary vacation time until you've been there long enough to get more then 3 weeks/year of vacation Very tight with discretionary spending. Breaking records for revenue quarter after quarter, but it's a major struggle for distributed team members to meet face to face once or twice a year.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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