Everyone remaining here with us has the imperative to MAKE THIS WORTH IT.
We can either continue to spend too much money, give shit away for free and thoughtlessly throw around money OR everyone can take a long hard look on their effect on the #bottomline, their efficiency and their margin and do what they need to do to improve it.
For some reason, no one focuses on it or coaches it but in the end our only responsibility is to make money.
I'm one of the people who got laid off. I loved the company when I started there 5 years ago, but things have gotten worse and worse and it was clear that management in Sunnyvale had no love for my group, no surprise that we got shitcanned. Here's hoping I'll get a better job paying more money and can send Kurian a nice thank-you card for paying off the rest of my student loans with severance pay.
You saying "NTAP is a one-trick show - NAS servers." makes me wonder if you know what you are >> talking about. Although they got hammered pretty good today, E-Series (block) is one of the few
parts of the company where sales are up and expanding...
Yeah, good luck with that. A pure flash RAID box with no data efficiency features .... right .....
Block storage? Didn't NTAP try to expand into SAN back in 2002-03 with a team in RTP? How did that work out?
Block storage is dying. Companies like EMC and Hitachi (the competitors?) are aware of this. NAS market is flatlining and will probably decline too, losing to companies like Pure or Nimble. Again, EMC has Isilon and Hitachi has their BlueArc division but these NAS divisions of theirs are seeing stagnant growth.
EMC is moving to converged storage. Hitachi is moving to Big Data. What is NTAP's plan to do something other than SAN and NAS? Do they have a project that will offer a viable cloud storage server? EMC does and so does Hitachi. What's NTAP's plan? 10GX doesn't scale out very well because the filesystem metadata isn't distributed but centralized.
What is NTAP's plan to counter the changing storage market? More re-orgs every 6 to 9 months? That's not a strategic plan.
The most likely bet is that NTAP is acquired by Cisco in 2-5 yrs.
The culture died around 2010-2011. Today was a clear signal that commitment to the customer, product, work ethic, and the team means nothing. That was the culture that drove us to 5 Billion on 7-mode.
Looking for the next NetApp now.
@GcdQQmr-jld - You saying "NTAP is a one-trick show - NAS servers." makes me wonder if you know what you are talking about. Although they got hammered pretty good today, E-Series (block) is one of the few parts of the company where sales are up and expanding...
@GcdQQmr, as an ex-NTAPer, the people who are being laid off aren't the ones who made the decisions that led to this business situation that necessitates a layoff.
NTAP is a one-trick show - NAS servers. It did not have a long term plan to adapt to the changing storage business. Plus all the impulsive "re--orgs" every 6 - 9 months created turmoil when the company needed to focus on working towards a long-term solution to confronting changes like cloud, VMs, and SSDs.
The rank and file were not the ones who made the decisions that have affected NTAP. But they are the ones largely paying the price for it. NTAP's management, especially the middle management, needs to be chopped off if NTAP is to recover. Management, not the rank and file, need to be cleaned out.
I'm the original poster. I don't disagree but I can't control what the board does or how senior management gets paid and in the end its the same everywhere. The executives are always paid well. The only difference is if NetApp succeeds as a whole then I get to share in that in at least a small way. If enough people have the attitude that they are going to extract as much as they can from the company and move on then all of this will be worthless and we'll all be standing in the unemployment line soon.
Yeah, it's a business. But what I will look at is what happens to the bonuses the execs take home at the end of the year. Seems like they put us in this position so they should pay a price as well, but I'm not hopeful.
I wish I knew what company you were talking about so I could try and get a job there. This has been the most depressing day ever.
I left NTAP because the culture there is long dead. They are not the NetApp they were 5 years ago. After 3 layoffs, the atmosphere on the RTP campus is melancholy and abysmal. I could not be any more happy to be out of there and at a company that reminds me of the old NetApp that I used to love working for.