'Great place to work' is pure hogwash - Member Of Technical Staff NetApp Employee Review

1.0
Jun 6, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexible work hours, Work from home.

Cons

Lots of problems, I am yet to meet anyone I would call 'smart' in Bangalore centre. Most IITians do not consider it as a worthwhile option. Culture of pretend expertise and incumbent worship is huge. GPTW is no more than a blue pill for the semi drone types, which form the bulk of the engineering team. An aging technology stack keeps getting more and more bloated and ridiculously complex with time. No emphasis on code quality/conciseness, functions with 30k loc and tens of 'if' statements are considered 'routine' when the FOSS community scoffs at anything over 2k. Facing financial distress lately, reasons for which are easy to guess. With btrfs shaping up the way it is, Netapp can only go the HP way. Processes and working styles already are so heavy weight, they have measurable gravitational field. Compensation is inadequate.

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Pros

Good work life balance (in my team)

Cons

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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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