NetApp reviews about "upper management"

The upper management are very poor

Work Life Balance, upper management

Your work life balance depends on your team and your upper level management

Outdated tools, products behind the market. Upper management seems to chase trends and then abandon projects a lot.

miscommunications on priorities from different teams between middle and upper management

Quite a lot of red tape that you have to navigate. Measurement of success by upper management is quite rigid, people can have different qualities and still contribute as much to the general outcome.

NetApp stopped promoting from within, especially upper management positions. This has been killing the culture for years now. New people, like at a VP level, will come in and fire 20+ year employees that are driving critical work and then turn around and promote managers to directors to get their allegiance. Not a company that you're likely to work at for more than 10 years because when layoffs happen they target the senior people.

- Upper management does not know what they want to do and messaging is contradictory to what they actually do. - They keep rolling back the days that we have to come into the office - it was 2 days when I started, then it became 3, now there's whispers of 4. And it's a hard requirement of x amount of days per quarter, so if you get sick or take a vacation, you have to make those days up. - The business processes are lacking structure - documentation is all over the place, trying to figure out who to talk to when you have a problem is an adventure in frustration, and they are pushing AI hard but do not mandate any specific tool, so it's all over the place. - There seems to be a bias towards the folks in India - no will admit it, but it is readily obvious to new employees. And there is an undercurrent of "Us" vs "Them" - The review/rating structure is so bad and something I have never encountered before - if you are rated at a certain level by your manager, that may not be what you ultimately get because your rating is not just based on your personal performance, but also the ratings of others.

- NetApp hasn't made a new product in 10 years, so you'll be hard pressed to find development work that isn't directly tied to supporting what was built before then. - Very little innovation other than weekend-project-level AI tools - Health and dental benefits are not great - Upper management is completely detached from reality