NetApp reviews

It's a mystery how this place frequently shows up on fortune's best place to work list. Average pay, average benefit and no perks compares to any silicon valley companies near by. Beer bash is pretty much unheard of in HQ to cut cost, while many remote office privately hosting "weekly" beer bash with company's budget while working on shorter than average hours. Engineer's productivity is almost non-existence since the introduction of VED (Essentially your desktop work space is under virtual environment but no network access). There's a culture of engineers saying yes to a task with zero intention to ever getting it done. The capable people get things done without ever getting the raise or promotion they were promised to receive, while slackers sit in their task for another day and getting free money. Half of the executives, founders and motivated engineers have left the company these past months. What's left are the finger pointing types of people who loves to play politics. Cafeteria food is average, but the menu never change, so you'd grow tire of them in a month, and people love to book meeting near lunch time so you can't eat anywhere else. HQ is conveniently located next to Quarry to poison your lung.

The executive leadership is wildly, demonstratively incompetent. NetApp is an increasingly icky place to work with regular annual layoffs, cratering stock price, and a near-freeze on raises and promotions. (Mind you, NetApp is still extremely profitable - all the layoffs and austerity are to marginally improve the quarterly report numbers in the hope that shareholders won't axe the executive team.) As long as I've worked here, I've listened to a parade of executives bloviating buzzwords and execuspeak in quarterly all-hands meetings. And I just assumed that since they make the big bucks, they probably know what they're doing, and my impression that they’re all incompetent is based in my own business-incompetence. But in six years, I’ve never once seen one of their dumb ideas proved not-dumb. I don’t know how/if the company will ever be successful again. (To be fair, we did just fire the old CEO, and have George Kurian in the interim. I always thought Kurian was one of the good ones - though if he authorized the VED rollout, that might speak against his technical competence.)