NetApp Senior Software Developer reviews

2.7

11% would recommend to a friend

(63 total reviews)
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George Kurian

17% approve of CEO

11% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer employees have rated NetApp with 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 63 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer professionals have an average working experience there. NetApp is rated 26% below average by Senior Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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63 reviews
4.0
May 19, 2018
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Pros

Work/life balance, collaborative culture, volunteer-time-off policy. I've had opportunities to work in different technology areas--product code, quality, developer tools. The initiatives around quality have made it easier to find bugs sooner and back them out of the code base; we are on a good trajectory in this area. I have great relationships with my colleagues and the first few levels of my management chain.

Cons

Life as a Data ONTAP developer has its frustrations, starting with access to the engineering environment (via the vmware horizon client) and erratic build farm performance; these make it hard to be as productive as we'd like to be. Some programs were killed several years (and million$/billion$) too late, and some acquisitions should never have been made; it's frustrating to see all this waste and to be told there's not enough money to make this or that improvement for developers.

3.0
Nov 28, 2017
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Pros

1. Enterprise storage is a very interesting space in the systems software world. 2. NetApp is very successful in that space 3. Mostly sane work-life balance

Cons

1. In my group (the ex-Solidfire distributed block storage product), it was very difficult to get the equipment needed to effectively test the system at customer scale. This results in worker frustration and serious availability and scalability issues with the product. (This seems to be a problem throughout the enterprise storage industry - for some reason there is plenty of money to hire people but limited money to get them the equipment needed to do their jobs.) In my group, the vast majority of status meeting time was spent discussing the allocation of scarce development and testing resources.

3.0
Nov 27, 2017
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Pros

definitely great working culture with good compensation

Cons

Frequent Firings. Should retauin the employees rather then hiring new ones after firing old ones just becasue the project got closed

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