NetApp Reviews

Pros

Very goof Leadership abilities of Senior management.

Cons

The company is getting bigger.

Pros

Workplace/office environment, work with lots of smart people, well designed organizational structure, reasonable work loads, strong senior management, excellent products, excellent sales force, consistent corporate earnings performance, outstanding benefits, excellent work-life balance, plenty of opportunity to move into other positions or for career advancement, all in all a great place to work.

Cons

The operating system software is sort of a mess. There are too many bugs in the software. The release cycles are very long (2 years) in the waterfall model not the agile release model. Some of the managers and staff are incompetent. A great amount of time, money and resources are spent on winning best place to work awards at every location world wide. It's a little too much. Too much politics within the engineering teams.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work.

Pros

Good culture, good people, good work, good satisfaction !!!

Cons

Its Storage related... products are not used by direct end users

Pros

Fast moving and recognizes people who get things done.

Cons

Getting bigger thus more processes are being implemented which frustrates people who are used to getting things done

Pros

NetApp provides interesting challenges daily, this company stretches the abilities of its people and encourage constant growth. In five years, I have never been bored. NetApp provides spot bonuses for excellent work, Friday beer bashes, and phone calls from Board members as recognition of excellence. On top of all of this, the employees are the very best and brightest in the industry. For the past fifteen years, NetApp senior management has been dedicated to fostering a happy culture.

Cons

I have no negative comments about my company.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the culture alive.

Pros

information sharing is very good.

Cons

no room for promotion I think

Advice to Senior Management

take care of your employees.

Pros

good environment at this place

Cons

slow process at least sometimes

Advice to Senior Management

nimble

Pros

Freedom and flexibility are the two things I love at NetApp and these are the two best reasons why I want to work as an employee at NetApp. It is definitely the best place to work at. I love the beer bashes here and the various other benefits that an employee gets.

Cons

Lack of transparency and there are some manager level cons.

Advice to Senior Management

Nothing

Pros

Good benefits (health care is quite good)
More than fair compensation
In certain groups, empowered to make your own decisions

Cons

Senior Management is de-coupled from the rest of the company
Politics are really bad and get in the way of getting anything truly accomplished
Professional Services is really poor, leading to tremendous post-sales challenges
No clear path for advancement, once you reach a certain point options are severely limited

Advice to Senior Management

Get a real Professional Services management team put in place. The inability to tackle post-sales challenges is killing us in the field. Stop talking about "Great Place" to work rankings and pretending everything is fantastic. Realize you need to back up your marketing messages with an actual ability to deliver on said messaging

Pros

Good/smart people to work with

Cons

Too much process
Career advancement is very hard

Advice to Senior Management

Change the review process