Place to relax - Not a great place to Start off your Career - Member Technical Staff II, Software NetApp Employee Review

3.0
Sep 6, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good Work/life balance Friendly people Free Snacks/Drinks/Beer Bashes

Cons

- Not a good place to start off your career. - Most of the time is involved in bug fix. Very less development - Too much of work life balance leads to laziness in employees - New joinees are almost treated as newbies and not given any responsibilities leading to sense of complacency in them - Higher management not proactive and lacking innovation in products - Most importantly, frequent layoffs/reorgs created a sense of insecurity in the employees

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5.0
Jun 7, 2026
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Pros

NetApp is a prestigious company, working for this company will be a great resume boost if you cannot break into top fortune 500 companies. Relatively easy to get into NetApp. Competitive pay.

Cons

Frequent layoffs. Understaffed which could equate to higher expected output.

3.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Amongst the top companies in the data storage industry = company stability.

Cons

If you'd ask me a year or 2 ago, I would have given the company 5 stars. But, as with most tech companies now, they've started to follow the trend of return to office, regardless of logic. There's little to no room for exceptions and the company would rather sacrifice productivity regardless if they know the hardships for people living in metros (one way commute to the NY or SJC office can take 2 hours one way!) - that and there's no commuter benefits. You have to pay out of pocket and live in fear of not receiving your bonus if you miss the "thrive together" quarterly requirements.

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