Great till mediocre management started to take over. - Escalation Engineer NetApp Employee Review

3.0
May 28, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Netapp was a great place to work early on and the _technical_ people were great to work with. I had some really smart peers and mentors.

Cons

Early on, the company was small and had a startup mentality but after RTP started to expand into the second and third buildings mediocre management stepped in and really made things backwards.

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5.0
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Pros

Good work life balance (in my team)

Cons

Leadership is bad, stay away!

3.0
Jun 26, 2026
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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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