Great beginnings, but losing the plot - User Experience Designer NetApp Employee Review

4.0
22 Jun 2014
Recommend
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Pros

- Compensation higher than market average for years of experience - Good for those from / interested in the storage domain - Positive work culture, respectable company values, and perks

Cons

- Leadership not agile enough to embrace the cloud paradigm - Constant reorganisations introduce upheaval and dilute product focus - History of layoffs in recent times - Difficult to move to other domains due to the highly specialised nature of storage industry

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5.0
7 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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
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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