Let down by bad and clueless management - MTS-2 Software Engineer NetApp Employee Review

2.0
3 Feb 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good workplace, great office, amazing pantry and lovely staff, lots of room for experimentation (in my case, YMMV), great potential to build a lot of cool stuff, free beer on Fridays!

Cons

Crazy crunch culture, horrible management clueless about the right direction for the company. Most "ambitious" projects get hyped, gets shown off at events but never see the light of the day, hierarchy becoming a bottleneck for people looking to change things and management not giving a damn about it. Lot of effort goes into deciding communication tool, JIRA organization, Confluence organization, meetings but ends up being such a pointless exercise almost all the time.

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5.0
7 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

NetApp is a prestigious company, working for this company will be a great resume boost if you cannot break into top fortune 500 companies. Relatively easy to get into NetApp. Competitive pay.

Cons

Frequent layoffs. Understaffed which could equate to higher expected output.

3.0
9 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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