NetApp Engineer reviews

3.9

92% would recommend to a friend

(13 total reviews)
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George Kurian

94% approve of CEO

92% positive business outlook

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1.0
Aug 22, 2016
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Pros

The benefits seemed okay (but can't truly compare without outside information), the fitness center is fairly large and nice. Many good and hard working engineers, scattered in various areas

Cons

Managers told employees that you need to physically attend all meetings in our functional group, not by con-call because upper management used physical attendance as a primary indicator of your value. So you learned that appearances were more important than doing real work. Upper management even told our group, that every employee in Sunnyvale has the "opportunity" to attend the quarterly All Hands meetings in person - really? Either have coffee and cake, while listening to the latest spin on bad numbers, or emailing the CM to get information on the root cause of this week's failures. I choose emailing, and I got laid off - although, I survived for 10 years. All of management were "yes" people, as other independent thinking managers quit or were laid off during the prior layoffs. Recent layoffs were to "change NetApp culture and processes", but the same processes haven't changed, and the towers between Engineering and Operations are still as separate as different companies.

1.0
Nov 21, 2015
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Pros

Plenty of parking. Amazing work/life balance (Because no one is really doing real works)

Cons

It's a mystery how this place frequently shows up on fortune's best place to work list. Average pay, average benefit and no perks compares to any silicon valley companies near by. Beer bash is pretty much unheard of in HQ to cut cost, while many remote office privately hosting "weekly" beer bash with company's budget while working on shorter than average hours. Engineer's productivity is almost non-existence since the introduction of VED (Essentially your desktop work space is under virtual environment but no network access). There's a culture of engineers saying yes to a task with zero intention to ever getting it done. The capable people get things done without ever getting the raise or promotion they were promised to receive, while slackers sit in their task for another day and getting free money. Half of the executives, founders and motivated engineers have left the company these past months. What's left are the finger pointing types of people who loves to play politics. Cafeteria food is average, but the menu never change, so you'd grow tire of them in a month, and people love to book meeting near lunch time so you can't eat anywhere else. HQ is conveniently located next to Quarry to poison your lung.

2.0
Jun 30, 2015

Lost vision and focus

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Pros

There is still beer on most fridays and the gym is nice. They have purchased new equipment for the conference rooms. They got rid of their CEO.

Cons

It has lost all of the innovation and vision that it had 10 years ago. They are super late to the party on new technologies, ie all flash, cloud and clustering. Internal tools could use a refresh badly. Wage is below local market value in area The last round of layoffs is proof that they do not think things out before executing

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