Hitachi Vantara reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(3,757 total reviews)
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58% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Hitachi Vantara has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,757 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hitachi Vantara employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Dec 4, 2018

Listless bureaucratic mediocrity devoid of passionate gurus.

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Pros

Amenable culture. Outside of one executive, you feel valued as an employee. Copious funding. An impressive repertoire of IP that could ostensibly be drawn upon to create world class products.

Cons

Lip service for years now regarding go-to market transformation, with no execution. Too many hires from legacy big box companies add to the bureaucratic gridlock. Though the company goes to great pains to appear forward thinking, there are seemingly no gurus who live and breathe on the bleeding edge to help guide us. It's very much a wait-and-see culture where the fear of failure seems to outweigh the necessity of risk taking.

1.0
Jun 7, 2018

Sales & Device

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Pros

none at all and getting worse

Cons

Lots and lots with no future

1.0
May 14, 2018

Vantara translated to Japanese must mean 'Bimyou'...

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Pros

Bimyou literally means “subtle" in Japanese, however, it usually implies that something is a little off, and that maybe it’d be better to just do without it altogether. In its previous incarnation, Hitachi Data Systems was a somewhat scattered and chaotic place, but it had pockets of brilliance and optimism. The new Vantara seems to be about trying to stuff the prior chaos and brilliance into a hastily developed org structure that might have worked well in a very slow moving industry such as Automotive or Aircraft manufacturing. (Silo'd PM, Eng, Svcs & Support...) Market opportunities for Vantara are plentiful, but it's not obvious that the organization is able to pivot to meet such opportunities head-on.

Cons

New management appears to prioritize 'showmanship' over 'substance'. Need to have patience for the new org to start firing on all cylinders. Need to tolerate the on-going story about 'digital transformation' which seems fluffy. Questionable future- it's not obvious whether Vantara can maintain level flight.

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