I am shocked by the amount of talent that has been layed off or are now at other companies. The entire financial services team in NYC has been replaced. Most left for VAST. The product owner for Storage Grid also left for VAST. George Kurian has facilitated the greatest departure of talent in the history of the storage industry. What remains is a shell of what was once a best place to work. Read the tea leaves .... If you're an employee this is the time to leave. Kurian won't need to give out packages anymore because people are jumping ship without it. Save yourself before it's too late.
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Netapp was a great company and was ranked as one of the best places to work. Then GK happened.
an ex-netapp here, this post is a joke, VAST is a AL/ML/GPU focused storage NAS.
NetApp's market is huge! not as huge as EMC. But NetApp is in the right spot at the moment.
I really wish I could come back to netapp!
I just looked at several other companies here on the Layoff. The tone is very similar to this post. . It almost doesn't matter which company you look at there are always people who are unhappy.
I've been at Netapp for many years and it's a good place to be. Not perfect.Some things are irritating. But they generally try and do the right thing. Sometimes upper management misses but it usually gets corrected over time. The over rotation to cloud is one thing that seems to be on a better path than last year.
Sounds like a dude that is bitter. The company is not dying.
Hey until then most of us are being paid competitIvely, get to WFH, learning cloud things (some of us anyways)
Worked at worst places..
Enjoy!
Ahh, good, I thought someone forgot to post the monthly fire and brimstone post.
Short term visions vs long term profits. Guess who wins? All else is forgotten even if unforgiven.
I don’t know about the politics on all sides of the business, but, on the field side, I’ve never seen a more toxic dumpster fire. All of these new take ownership platitudes are massively ironic. If you even make a suggestion that might give an ounce of credit to a directors rival it’s like you just ki---d the baby Jesus. People I know who have been massive NetApp supporters for over a decade are just broken. They need to get this change they’ve been talking about for two years done because right now watching the executives fight is ki----g the fields ability to execute much of anything.
GK has been slowly driving NTAP into a ditch for several years now. It aint the same great company it was pre-2013.
What? You just woke up ?