Is NetApp a good company to work for?

NetApp has an overall rating of 3.7 out of 5, based on over 6,020 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 3% over the last 12 months. 66% of employees would recommend working at NetApp to a friend and 60% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about NetApp have been left by employees working as Marketing Intern , Software Engineer(Internship) and Internship .

Does NetApp pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, NetApp employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.8 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at NetApp. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at NetApp?

66% of NetApp employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated NetApp 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at NetApp?

Software Engineer (202) , Member Of Technical Staff (145) , Technical Support Engineer (92) , Intern (71) , Senior Software Engineer (71) , Member Technical Staff, Software (68) , Program Manager (66) , Manager (60) , Account Manager (53) , Sales (52) , MTS-3 (50) , Sales Representative (49) , Product Manager (46) , Systems Engineer (45) , MTS3 (43)

What are the pros of working at NetApp according to real employee reviews?

"It has great culture and you will one has the full responsibility of his/her job and freedom of doing his own way." ((in 683 reviews)); "Flexible working time and gives good emphasis to work life balance of employees with Work smart initiative" ((in 551 reviews)); "Netapp was a great place to work early on and the _technical_ people were great to work with." ((in 507 reviews)); "Good benefit and working envrironment" ((in 355 reviews)); "good work culture and some of the best minds in the industry" ((in 239 reviews))

What are the cons of working at NetApp according to real employee reviews?

"Frequent layoffs if you're not in their core business (storage and data protection)" ((in 329 reviews)); "Much of this change has been driven by poor management and poor quality control." ((in 222 reviews)); "Most of the management teams are good but there are also some managers that you would wish you never had." ((in 117 reviews)); "I can only see this company go down the drain, due this poor leadership, excessive spending on unnecessary things such as beer bash" ((in 77 reviews)); "Poor upper management." ((in 56 reviews))

What are employees saying about NetApp layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about NetApp layoffs and their outlook for job security at NetApp in 2026.

What are the top reviewed NetApp locations?

Sunnyvale , Research Triangle Park , Raleigh , San Jose , Wichita , Boulder , Durham , New York , Waltham , Morrisville , Vienna , Santa Clara , San Francisco , Pittsburgh , Washington , Denver , Chicago , Dallas , Boston , Atlanta , Seattle , San Diego , Charlotte , Austin , Cary , Houston , Cranberry Twp , Detroit , Irvine , Los Angeles

NetApp reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(3,624 total reviews)

George Kurian

63% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

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NetApp has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,624 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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4K reviews

1.0

Jul 22, 2013

Absolutely miserable

Anonymous employee

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Pros

- There are bagels sometimes - If you're really into pointless meetings with mindless bureaucrats, you will love this company's culture

Cons

-Can't speak for other locations or geos, but Public Sector is a sinking ship, and people are abandoning quickly. Morale is horrible, there's no work/life balance, and management is full of weasals and their cheerleaders.

3.0

Jun 22, 2013

Best Place to Work? Not really. More like better than being unemployed.

Supply chain analyst

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Pros

HR does a great job with benefits and employee perks. I firmly believe the reason NetApp is always in the top 10 of Fortune's Best Place to Work is due to the external factors that make employees happy - good benefits, pay is alright (I'm sure great for engineers and such), awesome cafeteria (not free food like Google but still good quality food), WFH program (if you could get your boss to approve it - our boss clamps down on it due to being in an order/sales support organization), the usual employee friendly things like Employee Appreciation Week (there's a whole shindig where you can take your kids on Family Day - petting zoo, crafts, face painting, the works). Very nice gym (again external employee perk - make sure your workload actually permits you to have time to go to the gym, lol) Very nice campus and grounds (love the fountains, the infinity pool, walk ways, mini putting green, redwoods and maples - very zen) Executives seem to have a clear vision of where to take the company. Love that they make themselves available for new employees via TOAST (Training on All Special Things) - I was very motivated and pumped after TOAST. People are genuinely nice and the teamwork mentality abounds. Volunteer time off (VTO) - another employee perk. How cool is this? You get paid to volunteer at a charity of your choice or your group's choice. I love VTO and this concept of giving time (rather than just money) to good causes.

Cons

Rotating to other functions is not encouraged at all. Some folks in our group have been at their jobs for over 5 years! While being a Subject Matter Expert is good, it also tends to breed complacency and resistance to change (notice that about my group). Our middle management (people manager and director levels) prefer "youth" and seem to dismiss experience (i.e. people like me who are over 40 and have a lot of experience but cannot create a macro, lol. I guess Excel macros are more important than real world experience). I think this is where I take issue with the whole "Great Place to work" deal. Externally, it does look like NetApp is a great place to work (see above pros). But when it comes to professional advancement, gaining new skills, and mentoring, I don't see much at all. "Moving around" seems to be discouraged or people just don't want to move around! At least not in the sales support side. And it is hard to transfer from one org to another (e.g., Sales support to Operations/Supply Chain). Quality of middle management is average to inferior. Very political. Lot of favoritism. Groups do not have best practices. Work-life balance does not exist.

1.0

Jun 2, 2013

Middle management out of touch, overly political - smacks of Sun in 2005.

Anonymous employee

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Pros

Great work life balance (although many, many, many people take advantage of it) Work from home is okay, by manager. Paychecks don't bounce - yet.

Cons

POLITICAL, POLITICAL, POLITICAL - Marketing morale is awful, Alliance Management is bleeding people. Middle management (from Group/1st line and up to VP) is clueless about the dissatisfaction and therefore can't fix it. No room for individual growth. Mentoring program is a joke. TOXIC work environment. Only reason it's a GPTW incumbent is because there's an entire HR department dedicated to it - and yearly bonuses are tied to it. Incent people with $ and they'll rate ya, why not?

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Absolutely miserable

Best Place to Work? Not really. More like better than being unemployed.

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