NetApp reviews

During hard times, there's a lot of emphasis, still, on being a "great place to work". This doesn't make much sense when you know the axe is about to fall.

NetApp is in a transformative state, trying to mature from a start-up like operation to an enterprise class organization - a little too late. Groups still work heavily in silos, which causes redundancy and even contradictions in end to end processes which leads to a lot of 'busy work' as a result. Although everyone is nice, groups do not work together (a lot of tunnel thinking, rather than seeing the up/downstream impacts of their groups' decisions). The employee base is full of great people, but it's clear that the executive management ranks play heavy political games which trickle heavily into your every day job. The culture at NetApp is so consensus based at times that decisions are never made, or employees are required to jump through multiple hoops (getting buy in from 5-10 committees) before getting approval. This habit leads to less agility and again, more busy work. This company loves to invest a LOT of money into outside consulting firms for cultural initiatives.