NetApp reviews

Engineering über alles. Product managers & marketing are ignored or overruled. Only masochists should join the sales team. Corporate strategy is poorly articulated & mediocre. Management preserves itself, shuffling org charts & laying off employees while struggling strategically.

Disconnect in communication between leadership and engineering. Product direction and acquisitions are a mess. A lot of bureaucracy around decision making e.g. more talking about doing things than doing them - seems like decision makers like to talk their way into perpetuating their relevance/importance opposed to making sound engineering or product decisions. Innovation has been stifled to say the least - this company seems to be filled with old timers in senior leadership roles that are stuck in the glory days of on-premise data centers. Despite the recent marketing push for becoming "a cloud/multi-cloud specialist" and the new cloud focus of the company, I can assure you that ONTAP and on-premise data centers are still king. Compensation is relatively low by industry standards and equity grants are kind of a joke. Even though NetApp likes to flaunt that they're a "pay for performance" company the yearly bonus' are strongly tied to company performance which has been pretty awful for the last several years so even as a high performing employee I received ~56% of my target bonus for the last year. Considering that is a major lever in the realm of total compensation - it's important that people know that your NetApp salary is the only reliable piece of your TC (especially since stock has been plummeting over the last 5 quarters and thus equity grants are meh).