Pros
Company is good not people in the team i endedup
Cons
I am writing this review to share my personal experience at NetApp India, particularly in the team I worked with. This is not a general comment about the entire company, but based completely on what I personally went through.
When you are a fresh graduate, joining your first full-time job, you expect a supportive environment where you can learn, grow, and build your foundation. Unfortunately, my experience was the exact opposite. I ended up in a team where insecurity among certain individuals was deeply rooted. Instead of guiding and helping new joiners, they treated us like laborers - with no respect, no patience, and no genuine intention to support growth.
During the interview process, there was no mention that the culture would demand availability 24x7. However, after joining, an unhealthy expectation was created, especially by a few individuals who worked until 3-4 AM and expected others to do the same. This was never formally communicated, but the pressure was real and suffocating.
The toxicity was not mainly because of the immediate manager but came from higher leadership - at the director level. The manager had to follow orders, but the environment set by the senior leadership was extremely harmful. They pretended to be hardworking and "nice" on the surface, but the ground reality was very different. Their actions, tone, and behavior toards employees were disrespectful and demean
In recorded Zoom meetings, tney spoke politely, but in one-on-one in-person meetings, the tone changed completely - full of arrogance, disrespect, and even direct insults, where they openly said things like "if I were there, I would have scolded you," showing a complete lack of professionalism and humanity.
The company infrastructure, salary, and brand value are good, but mental peace is completely missing in certain teams. The "bucket culture" (pleasing superiors for survival) was highly active. Promotions, recognition, and growth depended more on personal relations than true performance.
I believe that people who live with such deep insecurities, harming others for their own benefit, may seem to live a happy life today - with money, family, and status - but true happiness, kindness, and peace will be missing from their lives. Eventually, only their selfishness will surround them.
If NetApp wants to maintain its strong reputation, a deep investigation into such toxic teams and leadership is badly needed. Simply removing or correcting such individuals could make a huge difference for the future of many young, talented employees.