Corporate wants the "Best Place To Work" and touts the culture. But it used to promote that first knowing that the company performance followed. Now that the company has lost it's way every other sentence in All Hands seems to be about Culture - but there's no corporate backing for it. Corporate wants it all - but is sacking people like EMC - numbers.
Netapp USED to have one layoff for an entire recession, re-strategize the products, and come out running with good products - and no fear of further layoffs.
This is the third layoff in a row - the 1st was "the one for the recession" - but it showed they no longer understood the market (hint - it's NOT CDOT - too myopic on that one). Last years they sacked most of the few cloud projects while saying "we don't understand cloud" and it was obvious by who got laid off they "gave up" on a fiscal deadline for re-slotting people.
So for most, last year in particular was a wake up call for employees. This years - including appropriate corporate sacking - showed no further understanding of market or vision. Sure they patched up a hybrid-cloud strategy - that's good for NOW - but what's the strategy? CDOT is, what 90% of revenue, and they've not acquisitions on sight either way.
Kurian is a bean counter and his main advice at all hands was "execute faster" Execute a market indicated failed strategy faster?
