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Great potential, slow to evolve, internal bickering/middle management hurting company - Member Of Technical Staff Nimble Storage Employee Review

3.0
Jun 23, 2012
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Pros

Very smart, driven group of employees Executive team well chosen they have a good vision, are friendly and accessible, not to mention damned smart Product has potential to seriously impact established storage market

Cons

Middle management(director/manager level) is a mess and for some strange reason has a lot of control. They dictate too much policy, plan poorly, and are always reactive. Poor meeting etiquette always interrupting, shouting, and do not respect others opinions, or even let them speak. The move from old site was a mess, building selection was rushed and has been out grown in just a few months. Expectations of working ridiculous hours, many have families and cannot work 80 hour weeks. No interdepartmental growth and very few internal promotions.

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5.0
Sep 3, 2019
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Pros

Nimble got a lot of things right early on with respect to team building and culture.

Cons

Now part of HPE, not many original Nimblers are left.

5.0
Oct 19, 2016
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Pros

There are great people in every area of the company, from engineering to sales to operations. Friendly helpful people that are highly skilled. There is a great sense of focus and determination to be the best in the business. The sales culture is especially good - no jerks here, very little of the typical political battles and personality conflicts.

Cons

Storage is a tough market. The competition is incredibly fierce. You get the sense that the competition is outspending Nimble dramatically on marketing. It becomes harder and harder to stand out from a technical perspective. Heck, we were told to shy away from getting into the technical details (weeds) because every vendor now sounds the same on paper. InfoSight is a key differentiator but it does NOT resonate with every customer. The total compensation package was severely diminished when the stock fell in Q3 of 2015. There was no real mechanism in place to fix that for existing employees... although employees that joined after the stock fell might have had it better.

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