Positive aspects overshadowed by management issues and confusion - Anonymous employee NetApp Employee Review

2.0
Jun 9, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free food, drinks, nice people. Was able to work from home a couple days and times were flexible. Interesting work.

Cons

- Upper management does not know what they want to do and messaging is contradictory to what they actually do. - They keep rolling back the days that we have to come into the office - it was 2 days when I started, then it became 3, now there's whispers of 4. And it's a hard requirement of x amount of days per quarter, so if you get sick or take a vacation, you have to make those days up. - The business processes are lacking structure - documentation is all over the place, trying to figure out who to talk to when you have a problem is an adventure in frustration, and they are pushing AI hard but do not mandate any specific tool, so it's all over the place. - There seems to be a bias towards the folks in India - no will admit it, but it is readily obvious to new employees. And there is an undercurrent of "Us" vs "Them" - The review/rating structure is so bad and something I have never encountered before - if you are rated at a certain level by your manager, that may not be what you ultimately get because your rating is not just based on your personal performance, but also the ratings of others.

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5.0
Jun 18, 2026
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Pros

Good work life balance (in my team)

Cons

Leadership is bad, stay away!

3.0
Jun 26, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Amongst the top companies in the data storage industry = company stability.

Cons

If you'd ask me a year or 2 ago, I would have given the company 5 stars. But, as with most tech companies now, they've started to follow the trend of return to office, regardless of logic. There's little to no room for exceptions and the company would rather sacrifice productivity regardless if they know the hardships for people living in metros (one way commute to the NY or SJC office can take 2 hours one way!) - that and there's no commuter benefits. You have to pay out of pocket and live in fear of not receiving your bonus if you miss the "thrive together" quarterly requirements.

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