Q&A With NetApp Employees

Colaberation without egos

Above average pay for the area

Commission structure

See the product that we created shipped

My customers and team mates I work with

The reality of the bottom line and how much speculation there was about the future (real $$ verse futures). That they also are not looking for innovative change but people to turn the crank of existing things.

Politics

It's constantly busy, but no one expects you to be online all the time. However, many people, including me, do a bit of work on the weekends to catch up.

Mostly driven by the individual. If your work is getting done on schedule there is no pressure. There are some who love to work all the time and they do, there are others that get their work done and get out of the office asap. Mid day breaks to hike, bike or run are common.

NetApp is riding the wave of the stock market for the most part. Some new business management has trimmed the fat which has greatly improved the bottom line. The rest around innovation is mostly stagnated or following market direction. There is no disruptive technology being innovated.

Flash is growing the fastest, cloud products are ramping up, and OCI are leading the way. Object storage is not gaining much traction yet

Get rid of the inexperienced first line management. Find an innovative technical leader/leaders. Those already there that have decades of practical experience I would put them in leadership and decision making roles rather than marginalizing their experience as not relevant or completely ignored.

No change needed

Initial phone interview with two people. If successful then may lead to an onsight interview with multiple panels of potential peers. Turn around for an answer is quick, usually in a few days if not sooner.

1)Initial call with internal recruiter. 2)initial call with hiring manager 3)2-4 onsite 30 minute interviews with perspective pears and other management 4) possible second round of onsite interviews 5) offer letter or rejection

The freedom to work and learn any way you see fit as long as your results are effective

Collaboration

Yes, NetApp gives each employee 40 hours a year to volunteer and coordinates various volunteer opportunities for employees or you can volunteer on your own.

No one wants to be there.

There is no vision, a lot of rhetoric. However, he is a businessman not an innovator so that assessment may not be completely fair.

Totally unknown to me.

Standard based on years of service. Not great but about "normal". There have been mandatory vacation days around holidays (or unpaid time off, you choose).

The pace is repetitive. They would rather repeat the same thing over and over in the hopes that random probability will fall in their favor rather than listen to the experience they have hired.

What team outings? We went bowling once.

Fairly secure. My role is really hard to hire for due to unique skills.

Enough people are quitting they need to backfill so chances are already improving.

I do not enjoy the feeling. I do enjoy my team but we all feel about the same about the way things are going.

I got a good retention bonus when we were acquired by NetApp.

Open office. It gets loud sometimes. Must buy your noise-canceling headphones. There is a large "kitchen" and good patios spaces.

Meh... it is okay. I can't think of an African American that works there in my business unit (of about 400 people) but I certainly don't know everyone. Seems about as diverse as other tech businesses, on the young and inexperienced side for a large part though.

I can't think of anything that I didn't get at my previous employer.

Netapp Solidfire, moral is extremely low in some groups. People are dropping like flies, some can get out fast enough.

It was a bit of a turn-off. I almost didn't accept the offer because of the interview process.