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
5.0
May 17, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Working in the product development at NetApp for 8 years, I see the products fairly mature from a feature perspective. This gives an opportunity to work on some of the most technically challenging problems to make it even better. In short, there are lots of interesting and challenging technical problems to solve.

Cons

System is complex and requires patience and lot of perseverance. The new grads get impatient and tend to quit. Need a more streamlined and soft initiation process for new college grads.

4.0
Feb 21, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work/life balance. There is a culture of transparency from the upper management. Very good benefits. Lots of training opportunities. The upper management seems dedicated to making the company a great place to work.

Cons

Pay is average or below, advancement is very slow. As an engineer, it appears that the sales and support organizations are running well, but product development seems very broken. Huge amounts of unnecessary process burden all aspects of the product development cycle, from product definition down to the level of the individual code check-in. This results in some of the lowest productivity per engineer that I have witnessed. The engineers are working hard, but it is very difficult for them to get anything done. The upper management seems to want to change this, but the deep layers of middle management are so risk-averse that they seem to be locked in stasis until an EVP commands action. The HR policies are stuck in the 80's, with an oppressive annual review process (complete with annual goals), stack ranking, and a black-hole applicant tracking system that seems to grade every applicant unworthy of consideration. For those rare individuals that do get interviews (usually because the hiring manager bypassed HR), the risk-averse culture demands multiple rounds of interviews. I know of people hired only after running a gauntlet of 15-20 individual interviews, organized into 3 or 4 rounds.

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