no Future - Anonymous employee DDN Employee Review

1.0
25 May 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Recognized HPC storage company, mainly focusing on custom storage integrator around GPFS and Lustre. Selling a lot of HW gears Decent pay Some (few) great technical talent.

Cons

- Zero career path. - No real Dev, mainly integration work of open source tools and packaging. - Management is horrible, No respect for employees. - No project management, Program management are calendar admin. - Worse ever CMO. - CTO is a fake role, no vision, mainly HW focus. - Engineering is mostly done by offshore contractors (80% of it) - Going downhill since two years and it will get worse. - Positive review about DDN on Glassdoor are written by HR staff

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
9 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

There WERE great people who worked there. But wow, they are dropping like flies. “Unlimited” PTO

Cons

Benefits are weak, pay is way below industry for engineers. Leadership is literally ripping out entire departments from the top down.A VP is fired, the new person starts, the new person fires the entire team and replaces it with their own people. A person will be let go and days later the replacement will start. It has impacted so many departments and isn’t stopping any time soon. I’ve already seen it happen in Product/engineering, Finance, HR, Recruiting and other outlying departments. Most people I’m aware of are actively looking because they know the goal is to basically rebuild the company with all new people. It’s chaotic, it’s toxic, RUN!

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