Suffers from really poor executive leadership - Senior Manager NetApp Employee Review

2.0
3 Nov 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunity to save a struggling company if you can position yourself in the right role. The company compensates competitively and the company shuts down for a week in December every year.

Cons

You'll experience annual to biannual layoffs and most of the influential seats are already taken by people who are actually very smart but who are complacent long timers who lack the leadership disciplines and operations chops to make a material difference. ancomplacent avers to looking in the mirror when trying to determine the problem.

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5.0
18 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good work life balance (in my team)

Cons

Leadership is bad, stay away!

3.0
9 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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