Overall it truly is a Great Place To Work! - Engineering NetApp Employee Review

4.0
Mar 8, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

You live the NetApp culture everyday, you count on others and others count on you. It's a very open environment where you have access to everybody -- colleagues, managers, execs. You get to do real product engineering work, some of these are architected and designed from the ground up (Ver. 1.0). Lots of top notch engineers and smart people all around you, most days you wake up feeling good and fired up to make a difference.

Cons

Hard to maintain a work-life balance, lots of conf calls that eat into your mornings and/or evenings. Comp and benefits are about average or maybe slightly better, but nothing to write home about.

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5.0
Jun 18, 2026
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Pros

Good work life balance (in my team)

Cons

Leadership is bad, stay away!

3.0
Jun 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Not the worst pay around - Opportunity for advancement if you get the right management - Good financial benefits (ESPP, 401k options, mega backdoor Roth) - The one thing GK is good at is driving up the company stock price. Hope you got yourself some RSUs

Cons

- 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

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