Great place to work! - Performance Engineer NetApp Employee Review

4.0
Apr 12, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great pay and benefits, challenging engineering problems, weekly beer bash, and a decent “get things done” environment for a big company. Great place to start or end your career!

Cons

Being successful in Engineering without politics is tough. There is a lot of cliquey, mafioso-type attitudes at the senior / principle engineer and technical director level; merit at that level seems based on who you know not what you can get done. Engineering environment is lagging, circa de 1990. If you’re looking to leverage new or Open Source technologies then, with a few exceptions, you should look elsewhere.

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5.0
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Pros

Good work life balance (in my team)

Cons

Leadership is bad, stay away!

3.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Recommend
CEO approval
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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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