Its been a decade long decline from a well respected technology company that was once at the top of the list for best places to work.
The company is now a shadow of itself. Third rate mangement and second rate technology.I was there in the beginning when optimism and one team were the goals. It's unimaginable what the company has morphed into.
The smart ones left or were thrown overboard and it continues. This is the future for those of you who remain.
Res ipsa loquitor
GPTW has certainly changed. I was one of the oh, say, first 30 in dev forming RTP. For the next 10-12 years it was absolutely fabulous.
It was interesting to see hires coming on at my 10-12+ years considering it a GPTW when I was seeing huge cracks in GPTW, management attention and focus, etc.
By the time I was sacked ~15 years (5 or so ago) it was a couple years into hard core irk and angst and layoffs coming from several levels up and handed to the managers the night before.
Yet even around then some thought it was GPTW. ? Really? There must be some horrible places to work if that was the case.
Now, from colleagues still there (most have retired early or left), well, it's largely as people note. S—y.
Still doing that sh*t and make that LESS
It is hard to believe that quality of leaders (directors and above) has degraded so much in NetApp. It seriously needs to be cleaned up first. Unfortunately none were touched. All recent hires in the past 1 year for the top levels from companies like Oracle are a misfit to this org. All they understand is create conflicts in the team, politicize everything, brag about how they improved the org after they were hired (pretense obviously), resurrect an old process and portray that it's a new step towards improvement and all of this is baneful.
The truest believers are the biggest liars.
NetApp culture is defined by sycophants and career chameleons being told how to think and feel. There's nary an independent thought beyond first-tier management.
What about those great survey results collected before the axe swing?
Run another survey, cowards.
NetApp business model is from the last decades. Who is buying hardware storage? Even when they try to go cloud they are at the mercy of cloud infrastructure providers. Storage services are commodity. Do you think AWS or GCP haven't built their own cloud storage and infra monitoring options? Why would they need NetApp Cloud Services? ANF business is stagnant and so far that's the only cloud business NetApp has to offer.
Working at NetApp is like working for the government - bureaucratic, brotherhood, play safe, and zero career trajectory. Unless you are ready to retire in the country club (even that's not a guarantee with a declining business), don't work here!
For those who are caught in the layoffs - past, present or future, consider it a blessing in disguise. It might hurt a tad initially but you are better off in the long run. Life is too short to be unfulfilled or miserable. There's a big world out there.
+1 to bad management
I agree NetApp has declined. But the Best Place to Work c-ap is all marketing.
Management(up and below) is pathetic. it is now an Oracle standard company.