Thread regarding NetApp layoffs

• kM should for sure be on that list.

Reducing the workforce won’t drive NetApp to a higher revenue goal—it might improve profitability in the short term, but long-term growth requires more than just cost-cutting. Sustainable revenue growth comes from product innovation, market expansion, strong sales execution, and competitive differentiation. Without those, aggressive cuts risk undermining the very foundation needed to scale.

As a former manager, stack ranking your own team is only part of the process. Your team has to go up against peer managers, and your manager (senior manager or whatever is a level "up") has numbers they have to hit for each bucket for 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, and 5s. And their manager/director, and so on. I had to fudge numbers I felt strongly about just to make my team fit a prescribed amount in each bucket. It stinks, but that's the way it is. And the ICs know it, too. None of this is a mystery.

My experience with prior layoff planning. Stack ranks are typically established months in advance but there are negotiations up to pretty much the day before. Being first to go on the list doesn't mean a sure cut because critical skills without redundancy will earn you a pass. Managers know the current stack but are often in the dark until the night before of the actual depth. Sometimes the stack is freeing a certain amount of dollars sometimes it's people. The negotiations on the management side are Machiavellian. I can't see RTO being leveraged for termination with cause. It's a very shaky position that's probably not worth the risk. I also can't see skipping severance packages. Reducing yes skipping no. Severance isn't for you because they care it's a lawsuit mitigation mechanism.

I have no insight into the current state of our affairs as I've stepped out of the management world, it can be truly miserable. But, some advice. Document things now. Get copies of important documents now. Start cleaning personal stuff that shouldn't be on your devices now. It's all good habits anyway. If there is a RIF and you are impacted don't sign anything until you've read everything over twice and take advantage of everything they offer.

Again I have no clue when or if anything is planned or being planned. These are just insights from past experience.

The lists have not been finalized. Stop making things up. We still don’t know when the layoffs will be or how big, but we are pretty sure they are coming.

Everybody uses RTO as a soft purge.

The lists are already finalized. There is nothing you can do to change it. The lists have been done for several weeks.

the gameplan is to layoff due to performance so THERES NO SEVERANCE. its not a layoff i guess?

Layoffs with severance are a thing of the past. Welcome the Trump-style layoff era, based on manufactured performance and attendance metrics and no severance.

NetApp Operations team maybe?

That's naive, if they wanted to lay people of they would just do it. They have before and they will again. They wouldn't invent some complicated scheme first.

What do you folks think, when is layoff expected? Any idea about which org or teams gonna face the wrath of it?

Wounded, not ki-led, surely?

Lack of innovation and hubris have ki-led NetApp. All the rest of that nonsense is just window dressing.