NetApp Reviews in Raleigh-Durham, NC Area

Pros

free work culture, great pay, great colleagues

Cons

may not be able to develop interest in the storage domain

Advice to Senior Management

keep up the good work

Pros

Management listens closely to their employees and makes cahnges and adjustmetns quickly. This company is FOCUSED - we do storage - and nothing else.

Cons

No one is perfect, some of the lower mgmt are rather like working for a pizza store manager.

Advice to Senior Management

Work to retain our good people and cut lose those who do not fit.

Pros

Challenging work, Typical day is 8 hours

Cons

Case workload is excessive at times. Understaffed

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to add new hire Technical Support Engineer, so we can avoid burnout.

Pros

Good Benefits, Commensurate Salary, Nice facilities

Cons

Lack in leadership & focus
Sales Driven
Lack in career path

Advice to Senior Management

Take some time to look at the company as a whole, re-visit the Co's infrastructure provide more opportunities for career growth.

Pros

good place to work, proper work life balance, management is helpful, goodd place for working mother, compensation is good. overall you will be satisfied

Cons

you will work on same technologies, relocation is difficult even if you have a valid reason,
few location in major cities

Advice to Senior Management

pleas allow employees to work in technologies they like, make relocation easier process incase of marriage , over they are pretty cool

Pros

Excellent growth, fantastic culture for technical people. Leadership is good, but unilateral. Company throws (or used to throw) great parties for customers and partners. There are lots of venues to learn and share information, but it really boils down to who you know and how much they trust you. Tenure doesn't mean much since most of the senior staff have been there for long times, but if you're willing to work hard to get ahead, there's lots of opportunities. You need to be able to recite technical documents verbatim to impress senior leadership for promotions or raises. Promotions won't come often, either, as they have more often gone outside of the company rather than promote from within any more, which is funny since that's how most senior leadership got to where they are.

Cons

Blind to faults or shortcomings of products. Too much "build it because we know best" mentality. There would be more career opportunities if the economy was better. Recent reduction in force ensured senior management got their bonuses at the expense of those who lost their jobs. Nothing noted or released to the press that the executives were foregoing their bonuses to keep the company in the black. The culture is one of fostering growth, but the problem is that people hoard data and information to make themselves more important. There are also the usual "clique" type mentalities that have to be dealt with in order to get information and to get ahead. Leadership is good, but unilateral. You're expected to pull yourself up by your bootstraps without the moral boost if you don't work in a corporate office.

Advice to Senior Management

Think twice about how the message percolates downward. It's perceived as too much CYA not to get laid off at the bottom since the top rarely changes in the same RIF manner.

Pros

The benefits at NetApp are great and the pay compared to other, non-IT companies is above average. The people who work there tend to be good, fun people on a personal level and are on the whole incredibly bright.

Cons

Depending on who is your manager, your experience can vary widely. In general management does not do a good job of making sure information flows all the way down the ladder, nor does it solicit input from those two or more steps below on the hierarchy. It is often said that management is open to input, just make sure it is not something they do not want to hear.

Because employees are very intelligent, they also tend to have an ego. This causes friction when neither party can accept that they may be wrong.

Advice to Senior Management

Ensure that your goals and ideas are not misunderstood as they pass through multiple layers of management and be more accepting of employee input.

Pros

NetApp is a great place to work because of the company culture. It maintains a culture similar to the startups of the dot com era. There are $0.25 sodas, casual dress code, ping pong, pool table, air hockey, weekly beer bash every Friday afternoon. Also, the executive management team is very accessible as well as responsive to all employees. Very open culture. Lastly, the benefits are great. Complete retirement plan, employee stock purchase plan, health insurance fully covered at a minimal premium to employees.

Cons

I think that some of the internal systems at NetApp are antiquated and need to be updated or better yet replaced.

Advice to Senior Management

Stay better in touch with what is going on with middle level management.

Pros

The people, the benefitts, the challenges. You have the opportunity to do what needs to be done and you can take the risk.

Cons

Due to todays economic culture, layoffs are happening. But the layoffs were a surprise to everyone.

Advice to Senior Management

Be fair and honest. Layoffs were a surprise.

Pros

If your into challenges and lot's of hard work it's a great place to be. There are perks if you have the time for them.

Cons

Far too little is done to manage workload. Lots of training is offered within however most of it is rather lack luster.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve training, remove the unnecessary positions which won't really amount to much and bring in some more hardworking talent.