Mid level mgmt - Director NetApp Employee Review

1.0
Dec 22, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Executive leadership communicates well with employees

Cons

Too worried about best places to work status and not enough concern about innovating and staying industry relevant as a leader. Hired a bunch of loser ex Sun employees at different levels and they are struggling with mediocrity across the organization. They do not operate like a true high tech company but more like a bank as they are slow to change and get things accomplished

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5.0
Jun 18, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good work life balance (in my team)

Cons

Leadership is bad, stay away!

3.0
Jun 9, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Not the worst pay around - Opportunity for advancement if you get the right management - Good financial benefits (ESPP, 401k options, mega backdoor Roth) - The one thing GK is good at is driving up the company stock price. Hope you got yourself some RSUs

Cons

- NetApp hasn't made a new product in 10 years, so you'll be hard pressed to find development work that isn't directly tied to supporting what was built before then. - Very little innovation other than weekend-project-level AI tools - Health and dental benefits are not great - Upper management is completely detached from reality

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