NetApp reviews

3.8

67% would recommend to a friend

(3,619 total reviews)
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George Kurian

65% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

NetApp has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 3,619 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The NetApp 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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5.0
Jan 6, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

What you can accomplish here is basically limited only by *you*. If you see something that needs doing, it's not *that* hard to sell it and get started. There's a lot of freedom here. At the same time, if you're a junior person looking to learn stuff, there are great mentors here. If you're technical, don't be put off by the idea that this is a storage outfit; there are all kinds of interesting things to work on here. Great communication from upper management. I used to work at a place where you'd read something about your company in the paper before you'd hear it from The Boss; here, they trust you not to share information with 200 of your closest friends in the securities industry. And speaking of the boss, our chairman/CEO and the president/COO are outstanding guys. You know that they're interested in the company's future and not in this just to get rich themselves (Dan would have quit a long time ago if that were the case). They are here to create an enduring organization that will contribute to the industry long-term, and thus have no problem telling the stock analysts, "We're gonna invest in the company's future, rather than doing artificial stuff to make you guys happy this quarter." I love it when execs at a public company this size can say that -- and do!

Cons

As someone else has noted, we're trying to grow into the size we've become. Though the small-company feel is great, it comes at the price of some immaturity in the area of "processes." So we've got to work on that. A lot of your experience at NetApp (as anywhere) depends on who your direct supervisor is; get assigned to a bad one and things will not be so happy.

5.0
Jan 6, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great Benefits, Open door policy! If you are smart you will be recognized, not necessarily promoted, but recognized.

Cons

Some of the senior management are clueless about the current trends in the storage industry. The company has great products from a previous generation of smart people, but are now not innovating from the front, and reflects because newer management lacks vision in certain domains

5.0
Jan 4, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Good management, not perfect but communicative and open. Good open-door policies, people who really like what they do, still has lots of small-company feel to it even though it's gotten pretty big.

Cons

NetApp is struggling a little bit to bridge the gap between being a small company and a big company; some of the energy and fun is getting left behind.

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