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Nothing but lies - Sales Engineer Nimble Storage Employee Review

2.0
Dec 12, 2016
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Pros

Infosight is a nice product but it is not the game changer they say it is. Technology wise Nimble has an awesome product with CASL and all but customers just don't care about it too much to change what they are using now. It will be pretty tough for them to get into the fortune 500 due to customers vision of going to an all software defined infrastructure. Things are coming in the roadmap that will help them but sadly it won't be enough. The best thing that can happen to Nimble is to be bought by a forward thinking company.

Cons

Nimble seems to be late to the party on mostly everything ie: All-Flash. Infosight is really useful but it is not the game changer that they think it is and customers don't buy into it as much as Nimble would like. There are a million competitors out there that claim they can do this and do that but in the end customers are tired of buying another array from another vendor. They want out of the dc business so I am not sure how they are going to reach their goals. Storage industry is so volatile many will fail, even if they have good technology. No jerks policy is a farce if you ask me...some good people and some not too good. Decisions are made with zero consultation which sends teams strategies out the window. The policy should be renamed to "Only a few jerks". No one is protected in this wild and crazy industry that we are in. That is why you see zero loyalty from both a company and employee perspective. Nimble is no different. Really? No 401K match...in this day and age its an amateur move to save money.

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5.0
Sep 3, 2019
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Pros

Nimble got a lot of things right early on with respect to team building and culture.

Cons

Now part of HPE, not many original Nimblers are left.

5.0
Oct 19, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

There are great people in every area of the company, from engineering to sales to operations. Friendly helpful people that are highly skilled. There is a great sense of focus and determination to be the best in the business. The sales culture is especially good - no jerks here, very little of the typical political battles and personality conflicts.

Cons

Storage is a tough market. The competition is incredibly fierce. You get the sense that the competition is outspending Nimble dramatically on marketing. It becomes harder and harder to stand out from a technical perspective. Heck, we were told to shy away from getting into the technical details (weeds) because every vendor now sounds the same on paper. InfoSight is a key differentiator but it does NOT resonate with every customer. The total compensation package was severely diminished when the stock fell in Q3 of 2015. There was no real mechanism in place to fix that for existing employees... although employees that joined after the stock fell might have had it better.

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