Attrition is an understatement! - Anonymous employee NetApp Employee Review

2.0
Oct 19, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Generally, the people I work with are nice, and my direct management has been great to work for. Unfortunately, the higher up the food chain you go, the more rotten it gets. Fortunately I can work from home, which is much less depressing than being in the office. Not sure who fills out those "Best Place" to work surveys, but it sure looks good from the outside!

Cons

A company that is clearly in decline - layoff, followed by a mass exodus, building closings, a steady rate of attrition and the constant threat of more layoffs. The openings never seems to get filled, workloads and pressure go up, and more leave. They certainly aren't doing much to keep people.

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Cons

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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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