Directionless management and too much politics! - Anonymous employee NetApp Employee Review

2.0
Mar 6, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good work life balance and great benefits. The pay is also as per market standard. I had an amazing team who were smart and innovative and made it a fun place to work.

Cons

Worst leadership I have ever seen from any of the companies I worked at. We lost half the team in couple of years to managerial politics and shoddy management which favored only the people who are in cahoots with it. Positions never get backfilled expecting the rest to pick up the slack and deliver fast. You don't get to work on what you like. Management surely sets you on a path to failure.

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5.0
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Pros

NetApp is a prestigious company, working for this company will be a great resume boost if you cannot break into top fortune 500 companies. Relatively easy to get into NetApp. Competitive pay.

Cons

Frequent layoffs. Understaffed which could equate to higher expected output.

3.0
Jun 9, 2026
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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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