Great company at cross roads - Senior Software Engineer NetApp Employee Review

5.0
May 17, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Working in the product development at NetApp for 8 years, I see the products fairly mature from a feature perspective. This gives an opportunity to work on some of the most technically challenging problems to make it even better. In short, there are lots of interesting and challenging technical problems to solve.

Cons

System is complex and requires patience and lot of perseverance. The new grads get impatient and tend to quit. Need a more streamlined and soft initiation process for new college grads.

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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
Recommend
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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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