Great place to work! - Performance Engineer NetApp Employee Review

4.0
Apr 12, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great pay and benefits, challenging engineering problems, weekly beer bash, and a decent “get things done” environment for a big company. Great place to start or end your career!

Cons

Being successful in Engineering without politics is tough. There is a lot of cliquey, mafioso-type attitudes at the senior / principle engineer and technical director level; merit at that level seems based on who you know not what you can get done. Engineering environment is lagging, circa de 1990. If you’re looking to leverage new or Open Source technologies then, with a few exceptions, you should look elsewhere.

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5.0
Jun 7, 2026
Recommend
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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
Jun 9, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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