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wake up! - Anonymous employee Nimble Storage Employee Review

1.0
Dec 3, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

New campus is nice, fridge is stocked with water... theres plenty of coffee and snacks, too.

Cons

The culture of this company is driven by fear. If you create waves, you are regarded as a bad employee. There are a lot of intelligent people here who I have witnessed others go from rock stars to cogs in this company as new management has come on board, pushed people out of their department to make room for their own, talentless friends. It is really, truly devastating to see a once fruitful environment reduced to the sweat factory it is today driven by metrics. This company has a pseudo reality of thinking they are a big company, when really they are not - it is a small software company that uses low quality hardware to deliver what is essentially a hard disk with network cables coming out the back of it.

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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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